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Betti-t, head of the entomology depart

; 3 meat or inc-him anatomist College.

and the foremost authority in the
state on the boats and control of the

'insect.

While appearances of the army

worm are still being reported coca--

sionally, the latest being in a county
in the Thumb district of the state, in

general little damage has occurred,

because of the prompt application of
control methods and the Wide dissem-
ination‘ of information regarding the
manner of checking the attacks.

Farmers and county agricultural
agents in districts where the insects
have made attacks this year, in many
cases have not even found it neces-
sary to report the depredations to
Professor Pettit’s office, having been
able to apply the information made
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Fordson pointer is the modern farm power.

close cooperation in the

Fordson tools.

of quality soil preparation.

 

Put behind it an Oliver No. 7—A plow or an Oliver FDH
Disc Harrow and you are using. the most modern outfit
designed to help you toward bigger crop yields.

1- You will find the No. 7 —A a pleasure to operate.
depth 18 set by a powerful screw which will name the bottoms
completely out of the ground even with the outfit standing
still. Each adjustment of the plow is conveniently made
from the tractor seat. Of course there ts a power lift.

Equallyconvenient to operate and capable of equally good
work under varied soil conditions is the Oliver FDH barrow.
Here, also, a quick acting screw control, operated from the
seat, permits the gangs to be angled with the tractor moving
or standing. The flexible construction permits short turns,

gives lightest draft and even depth penetration.
» Experience of three generations in the maldng of highest
_ grade, practical farm implements, and in more recent years,
of equipment for the Ford-
son, has made possible the development of these new

Plowing .

See and compare their work with your own exacting standard

SEE, ANY AUTHORIZED FORDDEALER

 

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In contrast to th
Point cites the atmzdi’ a

of a century ‘80 or even later. '“i’eo.

pic are” to East man; from all. ; 
parts of the state then," he recalls, - “

“some era: driving (or an, entire day
use night to secure information as to

control methods. I was kept busy our-4

i‘ng every hour oi the day answering
loug distance telephone calls, tele—
graph inquiries, end letters. Visitors

came to my house until twelve and.

one o ’clock in the merning.

“During such periods, I recall that
I succeeded in amassing behind my
house, a huge pile of pickle bottles
For some reason, this type of recep-

tacle seemed most popular for convey-'

1113' specimens.”

Inactivity on the part of the para—
sites which ordinarily hold the army
worm in check, brought out by the
cold wet spring of this year permitted
the disastrous insects to develop their

first generation, normally appearing in

April, in large numbers. “The para-
sites refused to do their work u‘ntil
warm weather came,” Dr. Pettit ex-
plains—B. V. Halstead.

 

TO CONTROL OUCUMBER BEETLE.

 

HERE is a weapon against the
striped cucumber beetle, formu<
lated by two entOmologists, that acts
as a poison, a repellent, and a fer-
tilizer. The mixture is composed of
one part of calcium arsenate. and
twenty parts of land plaster. The
dust may be applied with a simple
shaker made by punching a score of
holes with a nail into the bottom of a
half-gallon tin can. Two three-toot;
wooden strips nailed upright on the
can and opposite each other may be
joined with a round piece of wood to
serve as a handle

The young plants should be helped
out by crumbling the c1usty soil over
them, and the first application of dust
made before the beetles come, Addi-
tional applications are necessary when
new plants come up; when the plants
outgrow the dust; and when the dust
is removed by rain.

During fair weather two applications
a week are enough, except during the
first week; then several light dustings
are usually necessary, because the
beetles are plentiful and are eating
heavily. During rainy periods dusting
after each rain is necessary.

Usually ten to twelve applications
a season are required. The dust ad-
heres best when the plants are wet
with dew or rain.

 

FARM NEWS ITEMS.

 

The Eaton County Fair manage-
ment is eliminating a long list of pre-
miums for products and live stock not
commonly grown in that county. This
sensible action will enable the organ-
ization to offer much larger premiums
on the various classifications retained.

 

According to the July crop report of
the federal government, there will be
a decrease of 3,301,000 bushels in the
nation’s white pea bean crop. The
larger portion of this increase is in
California, which gives Michigan a.
more commanding position in the dis-
tribution of white pea. beans.

HIGHER Pmces ANTICIPATED.

 

’HE poor condition of the corn
crop, the inability of farmers to
plant and to cultivate the growing
crop, and the conclusion of the de-
partment of agriculture specialists
that the composite condition of all
growing crops on June 1 was ’the low-
est on any corresponding’date iii-more
than twelve years, indicates that high-
er prices may be expected for most
staple crops next fall than ha?) pre-
Vailed for three or m m.

 

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HEN you mention lime to a

farmer he immediately thinks

of it in terms of a back-ache,a
long haul and a hard day’s work.
Many different methods of applying

' the material have been tried out by

farmers working under different con-
ditions, but when it comes to knock-
ing the labor, out Of liming, Mr. Leo
Parker, of Cass county, Michigan, has
at least solved the problem in his par-
ticular case. As the method can be
used‘in many places we are attempt-
ing to describe it briefly for the read-

' ers of the Michigan Farmer.

Mr. Parker’s first move was to ob-
tain a lease from the railroad com-
pany of a suitable location, on a sid-
ing. The site was so chosen that lime

could be shoveled from the car into
The series of

which can be moved along the track
for unloading. A truck driven along

. side the door on the opposite side is

about on a level with it, thus elimi-

nating heavy lifting.
The bin will hold a carload of lime

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he Labor Out Of Lime

How Mr.- Parker Broagflt a Smile to the Face of Me Hzred Man

I while the truck returns for another

.. By C. L. Nash

and can be built for about $100. This
is soon paid back by the difference in‘
bulk lime in this way than sack lime
from the car door. But this is only
half the story. It’s getting bulk lime
home in leaky wagon boxes and over
muddy roads that discourages the av-
erage farmer. Cars have the habit of
arriving in a. busy time or during a
muddy season of the year.

With the lime bin to store in and

 

Where the Truck is Loaded.

a truck equipped with twenty-six steel
bushel baskets, Mr. Parker gets the
price between bulk and sack lime, as
Mr. Parker finds it easier to handle
lime from bin direct to the field and
into the lime spreader with as little
labor as possible.

The truck is .just nicely loaded
with the twenty-six baskets of lime-
stone. The baskets may be set off
in the field and a team kept spreading

 

 

Filling Side of the Bin.

 

 

" QUALITY}. ”I
RELIABILITY.
, SERVICE

NUMBER FIVE.

 

 

   
  
    
   
  
 
 
 
   
   
  
 
 
 
 
    
  
 
 
  

load of lime.

Briefly stated, some of the advan-
tages of the system of hauling lime
are: It saves paying extra for sack-

ing, lime may be hauled at any time, '

no hurrying up to save demurrage. It
is dry, a great convenience in spread-
ing, delivery waste due to poor wagon
boxes is eliminated, but best of all, it
saves labor and labor saved is money
saved.

This method is adaptable to com-
munity cooperation. Many coopera-
tive companies could use such a bin
and could own the baskets which
might be rented at a nominal price
per ton.

Compared to the need of lime we
have only scratched the surface so far
in the liming of our soils. Methods
that save expense will be given care-
ful consideration in the future.

(We would be pleased to hear from
others who have devised ways and
means of cutting down the labor and
the expense of securing and applying
lime to farm lands—Eds.)

Fight the Good Fight

By W orémg Togetéer for Me Advantage of all Coaeemea’

HERE. is need for consciousness

of group interest in agriculture.

Not an interest'antagonistic to
other classes of society; but rather
for the improvement of the Welfare
and efficiency of farmers.

It is impossible for group interest
to be developed unless the individuals
within the group come in contact with
one another. The isolation of farmers
and their individual lives are reasons
why farm organization has been so
long delayed and is often not effective.
No community can become a social
unit unless there are gatherings where
social contacts are made. The same
is true in politics, religion and educa-
tion. If there is to be the formation
of a definite group thought therelmust
be contact and association between the
individuals making up the group.

In agriculture group interests can be
solidified by properly directed thought
and an understanding of the problems
of farmers. The individual farmer
must get into touch with his neighbor.
Farmers from one section of the coun-
try must come in contact with those
from. other sections. The thoughts
which are born in the solitary mind of
the farmer working alone need to be
tested by the mind of the group.

The problems of agriculture need to
be studied. Farmers need to think.
Thought is stimulated by wider inter—
ests”. and more contacts. The wider
the scope of the farmer’ s activities the
more he will think. The more the
farmer knows about other lines of bus—
iness the more he will think soundly
about his own business.

Much has been claimed for agricul-
tural organizations. We have been
told that these organizations would
solve all the problem of agriculture.
No doubt, too much has been prom-
G ’ m fiowever, organi-

 

By J. T.

zation is as essential to the well-being
of farmers as it is to labor business.
Organization is for the purpose of
making groups more efficient and
teaching them how to better secure
the standard of living they desire. The
fact that business organizations in ag-
riculture have failed is no argument
against the organization idea in gen-
eral. Rather it is a reason for better
organization. Agricultural organiza-
tion means something besides business
or marketing. It should include all
phases of rural life and make it possi-
ble tor the right kind of rural business
and culture to flourish.

The farmer needs organization to
stimulate thought; to bring together
and crystallize rural thought; to
broaden his vision and experiences; to
bring a. realization of the relationship
between his business and that of other
men. Agriculture needs organization
so that thefarmer can develop a class
consciousness which will enable him
to discover the weaknesses of his bus-
iness and apply proper remedies. Also,
so that the farmer might discover
Whether other classes are exploiting
him and learn how to protect himself.
Exploitation is usually the result of a
lack of understanding on the part of
the farmer. The ignorance of the
farmer about market and business con-
ditions are taken advantage of by
some with whom he is dealing. Asso-
ciation with business men and other
farmers and strong organization will
bring to the farmer that knowledge
of markets and business which will

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make exploitation less easy if not im-
possible.

To accomplish the best results agri-
culture needs large mass organizations
to attack class problems, that is, the
problems of all farmers. The stimu-
lation of sound thought is one of the
best means of bringing about these
desired results. Thought is stimulated
whenever people meet and exchange
ideas. Such interchange of ideas
takes place at the picnic ,the market
place, the grange and farm bureau
meetings, and wherever farmers con—
gregate. Every meeting tends to spread
ideas. This is good, provided the
ideas are sound.

Interests of special groups of farm-
ers are attacked by the more limited
type of organization. The local ele-
vator or potato shipping organization
meeting causes ideas to spread. Wise
counsel from within and without can
be disseminated. The fruit growers’
meeting at the agricultural college or
at the farm of some horticulturist per-
mits men whose problems are the
same to come together in thought.
Men go away from these meetings
more nearly alike and with a greater
unity of purpose. Meeting of all kinds
tend to encourage and unify thought.

On August 22 there is going to be a
meeting of Michigan dairymen at the
Michigan Agricultural College._ On
this day men will come from all- parts
of the state. These men will be inter-

ested in the broad problems of agri—
culture and especially in the specific
problems of dairying.

They will talk

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over their experiences. The will hear
of world, national, and local dairy con-
ditions. The immediate problems con-
fronting the dairy industry of Michi-
gan will be presented. These men will
be told of what the agricultural col-
lege is attempting to do for the dairy-
men of the state.

The meeting of great numbers of
dairymen is certain to bring out the
most up-to-date information about
their business. There will be an in-

spirational influence which will follow-

these men as they went their way
homeward a little more proud of their
work and more hopeful of the future.
Out from this meeting will go a single-
ness of sound thought which will make
for the stability of dairying.

So on August 22, if you come to the
Michigan Agricultural College, park
your flivver by the Red Cedar river
and eat your lunch on the most beaue
tiful college campus in America, you
will, as the sun lowers and your
thoughts turn toward the milk-lot,
start" back home, better farmers and
better citizens for. having mingled
with your fellowman.

The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion has definitely refused to make a
reduction in western railroad rates on
grain, grain products and hay. Ten
states joined in the request for lower
tariffs:

 

Michigan is included in a. list of.
twenty-six states where farms are pay-
ing too ‘large a portion of state and
county taxes, according to a study,
made by the department of agricul
ture.
per.cent of the net cash rent f
farms had to be paid out in tax

  
 

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T never pays to do

 

 

 

NUMBER FIVE

 

 

The things by half.

Sometimes on the
La“ farm in recent years
Half it hasn’t paid to do

them at all. That fact
has a tendency to make us hesitate
more than usual perhaps. It takes
courage to plan one’s work and drive
it through to completion when that
work may mean a financial loss. Cour-
age is a moral quality that is ever in
demand, and one of the prime requis-
ites for success in any undertaking.

“Faint heart ne’er won fair lady.”
Neither have half—hearted efforts ever
won anything worth while. If your
work is worth doing at all it is worth
doing well. The proverb says, “Well
begun is half done,” but let us' remem-
ber that half done is not finished.
When we have made a'good beginning
We have only fired one barrel. We
must see the thing through with the
best that is in us.

Final accomplishment does not
come from reserving your strength for
a sure thing. It comes from putting
the best you have into your task, from
firing both barrels every day. The
hunter that does not shoot comes
home with an empty game bag. The
farmer who does not farm has nothing
much to sell.

You have only to look about you on
every hand to see what fine farms and
fine homes young men of the passing
generation have built up by hard work
and well directed effort. They should
be an inspiration to us. Times may
have changed since father was a boy,
but the essentials of success are much
the same. The same effort, the same
faith, the same patience and persever-
ance, the same hard work every day
will get results today as then. They
took good. aim and fired both barrels.

HERE has been

L _ much pro and con
rated” on the T. B. test and
can” 59 clean-up work. There
Best is no doubt but that

T. B. exists and that
it is a bad thing to have around. There
isn’t one of us but what would prefer
-milk from healthy cows, rather than
' from a T. B”. source. But the proced-
Ire in combating the scourge is some-
"thing else again, as some of our Heb-
?fflw neighbors would say.

However, there is developing a com—
‘Mrdfl side to this ,work which .is
', tnongly on the pro side of the ques-
"tion. -In the east T. B. among cattle
much worse than it is here. New
Hersey and some of the neighboring
rotates are reported to run as high as

   

 

  

buy their milk cattle instead or raising l
f , them. and in order to? exist in check-

ing the disease they enacted laws mak-
ing it necessary to buy these cattle
from accredited. cle'aned-up sections.
Each cow imported into these states
must have a certificate showing that
it has passed the test.

This, is helping greatly the sale of
good tested cows in the cleaned-up
counties of this state. Eastern buyers
can only go to such sections for stock
to replenish their beards. Several coun-
ties are already reaping benefit from
this and, as the demand is greater
than the supply, it seems logical that
other counties could also profit there-
by. Such regulations in the east are
certain to become more general. This

alone will increase the demand for

clean cattle.

AST week the Fed-

Pitts-burg eral’ Trade Com-
Pius mission rendered a
decision against the

Pasm‘ United States Steel

Corporation in the
“Pittsburgh Plus” case. The commis-
sion found the practice of the steel
corporation to be an unfair method of
competition in violation of the Federal
Trade Commission and Clayton Acts.
It, therefore, issued an order directing
the steel corporation and its subsi-
diaries to- abandon the system.

The Pittsburgh Plus plan operates
in this way. On steel manufactured in
Chicago, the price is set by taking the
steel quotation at Pittsburgh, say $30
per ton and to, this is added an
amount equivalent to the freight
charge on the product from Pitts-
burgh to Chicago, making the quota-
tion $37.60 per ton, the freight charge
being $7.60. No matter where steel is
manufactured outside of Pittsburgh,
the corporation charges the Pitts-
burgh price plus the freight from that
city.

Farmers being heavy purchasers of
steel, this decision will mean consid-
erable in the economy of farm opera-
tions. For instance, one farm imple-
ment manufacturer is obliged to
charge a million dollars Extra for its
annual output, simply to cover this
imaginary freight charge. The Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation has cal-
culated that the practice costs the
farmers of eleven middle-western
states a total of $30,000,000 dollars
each year, and there are other states
which pay tribute to this practice in
even greater proportion.

While this decision will likely be
appealed, there is no justice in the

practice and it ultimately must be
abandoned.

N th 0 beginning

The God created th e

P t I heavens and the

. ape .ua earth. The fish of the

.Creatton sea and the fowls of

the air, and every liv-
ing thing that m0veth or creepeth up—
on the face of the earth, created He
them. He then created man in his
own image to have dominions over all
things and He saw that it was good.
It was at this point in the creation
process that he turned the job over
to man, with instructions to be fruit-
ful‘and multiply, to replenish the earth
and subdue it.

Since then, these many thousands
of years, have we been at the great
work of creation that was so well
started at the beginning. We forget
what we are doing, many of us, and
often bungle the work so that it has
to be torn. down. We do the forbidden
things and suffer the consequences.
But in spite of our ’shortsightedness
the infinite process of creation goes
merrily on and the speed with which
it makes its progress is in keeping
with our ever increasing momentum.

How much more satisfmg our work

Would be if we could always look upon

it as a part of creation. Instead of

being drudgery, tiresome, a thing to

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been”: or ever will be undertaken,

should surely. be considered a prlv-'

flags. and the most menial. tasks as
well as the greatest, are all required
in the process. When we plow, saw or
reap it is not Just so much dirty work
for so much filthy money, but rather
it is the great God of the universe
working through us to replenish the
earth and subdue it.’ Looking upon
our work in this light it becomes a

joy, we find pleasure in helping the?

world along and must consider it a.
privilege to have been born a human
being with so fine a work to do.

0 we not already

Raise hear the com-
the . mand to; raise the

_ _ attest For four full
Port'cullu years the farmer has

stood without the
gate. It has been a feat of endurance
that has been his to perform. Patient-
ly has he borne the brunt of hard
times. 'Mightil‘y has he striven with
the forces of nature that he might pay
the interest and taxes and keep the
young ones fed and clothed.

Today some are broken in wealth,
crippled in spirit, and millions have
succumbed or turned back to hunt for
a living elsewhere. But the real farm-
er still trusts in God and bends ten-
aciously to his task, for greatly does
he hate to give up, and as he labors
he listens hopefully, like the good
knight of old, for the- order which, if
it has not already been given, he
knows must come sooner Or later from
within the realm of prosperity: “Raise
the Portcull‘is, Let down the Draw-
bridge, and bid him enter.”

Beyond the wall he thinks he hears
murmurings. He sees indications that
he is being missed. The products of
industry are piling up, due to his in-
ability to buy, and there are signs
that point to a lessened food supply.
He knows that he is needed on the
prosperity side of that wall. How long
before the rest of the world will find
it out? Will'the portals be opened
and the bridges lowered that he may
enter in time to prevent great suffer-
ing both within and without the gate?

NTENSIVE cultiva-

Intensive tion. That is what
we who remain on the

F?""' farms must eventual-
mg Iy come to. But, some

folks say, will that
not cause a greatly increased produc-
tion and consequent lower prices. Not
necessarily. It will rather mean the
cultivation of fewer acres for the re
quired production. It will mean less
human labor per bushel or per pound.

Intensive agriculture means eco-
nomical production and high acre
yields. It means the reversion of thou-
sands of acres now being farmed, to
grass lands and forests. It means bet-
ter cultivation of the betterlands and
less cultivation of the poorer lands.

We Americans, with our feverish
haste and reckless waste, have
brought many millions of acres under
the plow that should have forever
been left in grass and timber. We
seem to have accepted it as a fore-
gone conclusion that land must be
plowed in order to pay, so we have
cleared and plowed most everything
in sight regardless of its suitability for
crop produciton.

We are at last learning our mistake,
the knowledge is literally being thrust
upon us, and today thousands of the
less productive acres in Michigan are
lying unplowed and unplanted, left to
their own resources, and they will
eventually cover themselves agalnwith

the’natural growth to which they are »
‘ Anyhow, I think I’m goln’ to learn ta.

best adapted and of which they
should never have been denuded

Our better farming lands. those that
are fertile by“nature, easily worked.
climatically favored and well adapted
to sound systems or tormins’wiii in-

 

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to stop the mounting cost so we must
prepare to meet it. This we can best
do by farming only the best acres and
farming them better.

 

This ye.ar silo capacity will mean‘
corn crop“ insurance.

Growing alfalfa. brings profits .be-

yond the hay pay, many-grow it alone '

for the land’s sake. g

The management of the farm hasa.
two-fold aspect that of a business and
that of a home. 7

Those interested in an income from
booze get little satisfaction from the
British Columbia elections.

Hundreds of thousands of farmers,
and practically every experiment sta-
tion in the land have proven the em-
cieney of the silo.

Unless farmers arm themselves with]
arsenicals, the potato bug will wel-
come the early potato planting pro-
gram.

Throngs gather annually at our ag<
ricultural fairs in anticipation of see-
ing the best that man has accom-
plished in the various phases of farm
activities.

 

H... T/zere

T kinda looks like “hay there” and)

“hay here” this year. It sure seems
like the barns is goin’ to be bulgin'
with hay this year, but if the janitor
don’t do no better job of flrein’ and'
get more heat on, the silos is goin’ to
be full of emptiness. And that kind)
0’ stuff ain’t of much value in a cow’s
rashun.

Seein’ as there was so much hay to
handle, the weather man was very:-
kind ta have it cool fer the job. When:
you have hayin’ and sweatin’ weather
together, sweatin’ sure is easy, but
when the pores is
oozin', the corn is
growin’. It takes
heat ta make corn.
pop in the field as
well as in the
popper.

You know, this
weather is funny.
Some 0’ th es 0
' sighentiflc m e 11
says this world is coolin’ off all the
time, and the way this year is I think
maybe they’re right. They say it will
be about 100,000 years before it‘ll get
too cool for Comfort and we’re goin' ta.
have plenty 0’ time fer man ta get as
perfect as he kin be on this earth.

Maybe they are missin’ their calcu-
lashuns by 99,999 years and we will
have ta hurry up ta get perfect. or
course, I won’t have much ta do ta.
get that way myself, but I’m goin’ ta.
hurry a bit anyhow, ’cause this cold
season scares me a. littul.

The way lots is sellin’ in Floriday
and such places, it looks like there’s
lots 0’ folks what agree with these
sighentists and they is goin" ta live
south so they kin have all the time
possihul ta accomplush perfectshun. I
guess there’s lots 0’ them what need
all the time there is ta do that.

Now, if the weather is going ta' be
like these sighentiflc men say, we will
all have ta get ta be hay eaters, ’cause
you kin grow hay when you can't
grow nothin’ else. Maybe some day
we’ll all have to sit around a. half a.
day’and chew our cud. There’s some
what is profichunt in that now. ‘

' Sofie just read this and all she says
was “pooh.” This shows that even
she is growin‘ cold toward my ideas.

 

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alotolittadointhem I’mai-
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Two Year: Afier Me Campaign, A [fit/fit is Playing a! Lem/122g Role in Eaton County
By H. C. Rather

N ”1919, Eaton county farmers har-
. vested 746: acres of alfalfa far hay.
, By 1921 they~had“_painfully increas-

, ‘_ 'ed this acreage te about 1,000. Real
success" with the crop was rare and

w.‘as coming to only a few under most
Clover wasn’t
doing any too well either. This coun-
fy, which had been a. leader in seed
production, was finding its fields turn-
ing red with sorrel, and the crop of
"pure- clover an undependable one.
Most farmers followed the old practice
30f sowing clover seed with a hope

man put it,‘ “they mixed in a liberal
supply of timothy and knew darn well
(that would come.” The result was
moderate yields of bay of inferior val-
ue, especially as a feed for the dairy
cow, a most reliable source of‘income.

In the early winter of 1922, the
Eaton county farmers, through their
farm bureau executive board and coun-
ty agent, Ralph Tenny, invited in the
alfalfa workers of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College. These men put on
a two weeks’ campaign spreading in-
formation on alfalfa growing. “Barn-

, storming for Alfalfa” is what one ag-‘

ricultural writer called it. ‘A few in
each community gathered in one of
their neighbor’s barns and talked with
“the college men about this crop. Not
formal, stiff-colared meetings were
these; but free-for-all discussions, ar-
guments, and Sessions of experience-
swapping, all of which brought out
some real facts about the things that

'had to be done in order to ‘grow alfal-

fa. Eighty such meetings were‘ held
and more than 1,200 farmers attended.
Then they went home to put those
facts to work in their fields.

The alfalfa acreage in Eaton county
leaped from 746 to over 2, 400 in 1922.

_ County Agent Tenny estimates that it

has more than doubled since then.

The supervisors are making an accur-
ate survey of the alfalfa acreage in
the county now. In every township,
they are finding progressive farmers
improving their incomes with alfalfa,
and invariably they are finding that
the farmer who really takes care of
alfalfa’s needs is making a success

with the crop.

During the week of Junel9, the
Eaton County Agricultural Agent con-
ducted a three-day alfalfa tour at
which a couple of hundred farmers
took opportunity to see what two years
of alfalfa progress had taught. 1

The first stop was at A. K. Tower’s
farm, near Charlotte. Mr. Tower has
had considerable success in making a.

“Then,” as one"

good quafity of alfalfa hay and be-
lieves in cutting in the early bloom
stages to secure the maximum feeding
value peracre. - This is inxline with
the experience of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College which recOmmends
cutting alfalfa when the new shoots
are two or three inches long. This
ordinarily comes when the alfalfa is in
[about one-third bloom. Later cuttings
depreciate the quality and feeding val-
ue of the hay.

On the farm of O. G. Gates, of Char-
lotte, the tourists saw an effective
demonstration of the necessity of sow-
ing alfalfa on soil which contained
lime. Part of Mr. Gates’ field had been
an old gravel pit which, on test, show~
ed it contained an abundance of lime.

Bert Cottress, Vermontville; Henry
Perry, Charlotte, and Ray Pinch; Spic-
erville, are Solving the sour soil prom-
lem in a different way. These men
are developing extensive marl beds
and using this on their sour lands at
from three to five yards per acre.
Where the marl had been applied
splendid stands of alfalfa have result-
ed, but the crop is not a good one on
any soil of acid reaction which has
not been treated.

Dennis Miller, of Eaton Rapids, had
one of the most interesting demonstra-
tions visited. In the spring of 1920,
Mr. Miller seeded alternate half-acre
strips of Grimm and common alfalfa
across one of his back fields. His first
impression that fall was to favor the

 

 

 

A Group of Eaton County Farmers Inspecting One of the Best Fields of
Alfalfa in the County.

It' carried a remarkably good stand of
alfalfa. Next to it was soil which had
become sour and had received no
treatment. Here the alfalfa was pale
yellow and very unthrifty, while Its
place was being rapidly taken up by
horse-sorrel and other weeds which
grow well on sour soil.

Stacy Phillips’ field, near Charlotte,
gave the answer to that problem. He
sowed two tons of lime to the acre on
a sour soil and put his alfalfa in with
wheat. Last year, the stand was not
what it should have been because of
too deep planting, but now, on a field
originally too sour for alfalfa, he has
an excellent crop which promises a.
four-ton yield for the season. Mr.
Philips used certified Grimm seed.

common alfalfa. You could see a dis-
tinct difference in every strip. The
next spring the difference still was
outstanding, but it was one which sent
Mr. Miller‘down town after more
Grimm alfalfa seed. Every strip of
common had badly winter-killed. To-

day these strips are practically bare.

The stands of Grimm alfalfa show al—
most no‘ injury, and look to be good
for several years to come. Every
farmer who saw that field went away
a believer in hardy northern-grown
seed, of known origin, and of varieties
like the Grimm.

Vern Ripley, of Bellevue, another
believer in Grimm seed who practices
his beliefs, has one of the best fields
if not the best in the county. Fortu-

nate in having a soil which naturally
contains plenty of lime, Mr. Ripley»:
had twelve acres of last spring’ 5 seed- ~
ing which stood uniformly hip high
with indications for a record yield. '
Earl Day, of West Windsor, had the ;
oldest fields visited. A couple of hill-u
sides too steep for comfortable farm-

'ing had been seeded to alfalfa eleven f '
Both fields -'

and twelve years ago.
still very productive, succumbing to
the ravages of many winters .in onlya
few spots. George Potter, of Mulli‘
ken, had a. nine-year-old field still in
production.

Of outstanding importance was the
failure of alfalfa stands on unlimed
sour soil. Many farmers found it was
mighty poor economy to try to do
without lime, all their seed, labor and
the use of their land returning them
nothing. But where marl or lime was
applied, there was alfalfa—enough to‘
pay the lime investment many times
over.

The three-days’ tour covered terri-
tory served by the three Eaton county
cow testing associations. These bore
striking testimony to the effectiveness
of alfalfa in the dairy ration. In the
South Eaton Association area, only
four out of the thirty-one members of
the'association did not grow alfalfa.
Mr. C. E. Burke, of Eaton Rapids, an
alfalfa enthusiast, had a. herd of H01-
steins which had just made a herd
average of 513 pounds of butter-fat
for the season. In the North Associa-
tion area, twenty—two of the twenty»
eight members are alfalfa growers,
while in the new West Association,
more than half the dail‘ymen depend
on alfalfa.

According to Hans Kardel, Herman
Frank, and Elmer Dobson, the testers
in these associations, the alfalfa feed-
ers are right at the top when it comes
to dollars profit at the end of the sea—
son, but those still depending on other
roughages are finding it difficult to
keep the red ink out of their cow
books. Invariably their profit, if any,
is below the average of alfalfa feeders.

A few Eaton farmers were interest-
ed in the alfalfa as a cash crop, and
it is pertinent to know that the aver-
age ten-acre field of Eaton country al~
falfa in 1923 was worth $240 more
than the average ten acres of mixed,
clover, or timothy hay. The 4,000 acres
which Eaton county farmers harvested
in 1923 brought $96,000 more to the
alfalfa growers of the county than did
any other 4,000 acres of average hay,
these figures representing its cash
crop value.

Policing the Neighborhood

How Farmer: Cooperatea’ to Protect Téemse/‘vey Against Petty Téiew'fig
‘ By. Hilda Richmond

N our county a good many petty
thefts have been committed during
the past few months, pigs, wool,
and particularly chickens,'being tak-
en. Many farme s with valuable flocks
for hatching purposes had lost heavily,
and always the town police seemed

‘I - helpless in running down the thieves.
'Finally the sheriffs of several counties
4 ‘ called upon farmers to keep watch on
the flocks of their neighbors known to

be doubtful characters, and arrests be
gan to be made at a-lively rate. One
man is now in the state priSOn for the
theft of pigs and chickens, another is
awaiting trial, and several more in-

. .dicted.

It was disclosed in the course of the
‘ihvestigation that a ring covering

onecoanty, dress the
" , .at some

  

flocks, and when people were ques-
tioned as to where and when they had
bought their fowls that anything sat-
isfactory came about. One prominent
young farmer lost his chickens at
midnight, or thereabouts, and by noon
next day they were located in the
yard of a suspicious character some
miles distant. The man could give no
clear account of where he had bought
the hens, though he stoutly maintain-
ed that he did not steal them; and as
the neighbors knew that he did not
keep, that breed it did not take long to
lodge him in jail. Then he opened
up and disclosed some of his pals,
among them a woman, active in hand-
picking chickens. The farmers were

”thoroughly roused and they said that

“ : flab'usinea at 36111118 Valuable. young

  

hens, dressed, to restaurants must be
stopped.

Now, it isn’t hard to lend the police

alittle air by helping them locate sus-
picious characters. When a man on a
small place has no daylight occupa-
tion, but starts off in the dusk, he
should be watched. In these days of
high prices people do not live on
“what the neighbors bring in” and
those .who seem to be able to exist
without daylight work should be
watched.

One rather childish old lady told
about her son who lived at a distance

and when he visited her always start-

ed home at dark. “And when he gets
home he has enough in his wagon to
doth-em a whole week,” said the old
ladylpnoudly.~ That bit of information

  

was enough and the man is now "dal-
ing'time” at the state penitentiary.

Often innocent children at school
tell enough to convict their parents,
and a little kindness shown them, and
judicious questioning will reveal many
things. The children of one family '
always supplied with chicken in their
lunch pails aroused suspicion, and
when the police investigated they
found the hay and fodder in the old
barn used to cover bags and bags of
feathers, though the family owned but
a few scrub fowls.

Most people are entirely too negli-
gent for their own good. A few fowls
now and then, nests robbed on Sunday, -,
and a duck or turkey picked up in the
field does not rouse them to action. -~
“0, yes, we know who took them, but ‘
we need the man for occasional work:
so we say nothing ” was the wayron
man with a big farm expressed it; 1d.

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, W0 letters have come to our

. of advertising Michigan beans.
‘ ‘eof these is tron: Mr. Benton,man—
‘ er, of the bean department of the
~ . 'chigan Elevator Exchange, and the
other from A. B. Cook, master of the
’-Michigan State Grange

After reading these letters, which
were. p - ted below, we would like grow-
ers of this crop to advise us by post
card or letter whether or not they
ff Would favor an advertising program to
T the extent of allowing one cent per
V hundred, on each hundred weight of
* beans sold, providing the elevator men
would allow the same amount. To
" check up we would like each grower
. to give the name of the elevator or
_: lawyer to whom he usually sells. Send
a the. letters to the editor of this
journal.

Here is What Mr. Benton Says:

Michigan bean growers and elevator
" men are again discussing the need of
an advertising campaign in behalf of
1 Michigan navy beans. Last year a
proposed national advertising cam-
’ paign to increase the Consumption of
beans nearly went into effect, but was
blocked by the reluctance of some

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TWIN HEIFERS 0. K. FOR BREED-
— ING.

 

I have twin calves. They are both
heifers. Are they all right to keep?
' Somesay they will not breed.—-C. M.

Twin calves that are both heifers
should both breed satisfactorily. Usu-
ally the female of twins, one male and
one iemale, will not breed. It is what
is known as a “free martin.” In your
case you should experience no difli—
culty.-——J. W.

NATIVE BORN ARE Cl‘TlZENS.

 

Does a man or woman born in this
country, of parents born in Canada,
' but who never took out papers, have
to take out papers to vote?—A. L H.

.- The constitution of the United

”5 States provides that every person born
in the United States is a citizen there-
.of. It matters not who their parents
are nor whether they be citizens.—
Rood.

   
  
 

SELLING STRAY CATTLE.

June 6, 1924, nine head of young
cattle and one dry cow came to my
premises. I have been advertising
these in one of the county papers ever
since, and thus fal have received no

' inquiry for them. What must I do to
establish ownership of them?~—J. C.

No ownership can be established.
They will have .to be advertised and
sold as provided by the statutes, and
the proceeds, less the expense of sale
and advertisement, and the keep till
‘ the sale, turned over to the town clerk

" to be held for the owner—Rood.

,0WNER OF PIGEONS LIABLE FOR
’ DAMAGE.

  

If A. has some pigeons can B. shoot
them away if they come ove1 to his
lace. A. has quite a few of them and
_ are a lot that have young ones
and they have to starve in their nest.
is thege anything A. can do about it?

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shoves being so far tamed and re-
,. mod that they return to roost are
the private property of the person har-
bohng them, and that property is not
“ hi the fact that they leave his

    
   
 

 
  
  
  
 

 

desk regarding the advisability

W arr/d Knowledge of Mtcézgan '3 Superior Hedda" Promote the Sale

of Our Hand Pidea’ Start?

large operators to come in and share

the expense as well as enjoy the hen-1

Gfits. 0

With perhaps the largest bean crop
Michigan has ever known just ahead
of us, the majority of Michigan bean
men see the-advantage. of an advertis-
ing campaign to call attention. to the
superior merits of Michigan beans and
thereby increase consumption and
strengthen the market. A few large
elevator interests in Michigan are de-
manding full proof that the farmer is
willing to do his part in advertising
Michigan beans before'thcy will come
in on the plan. The growers and ele-
vator men’s committee in charge of
the advertising proposition, in cooper-
ation with the Michigan Farmer, are
asking that bean producing farmers
read the committee’s statement and
register their respective opinions with
the Michigan Farmer by means of a
short questionnaire. To be efficient
such an advertising plan should in-
clude the whole bean industry. ,

The committee knows how many
Thumb bean growers feel about the
plan. Recently letters were sent to
5,000 growers in the Thumb Associa-
tion, explaining the situation as out-

   

ays Ewe Name and deress

lined last week. (Replies favoring an ad-

vertising cam and pledging sup-

' port were had from 2,594 growors; six
oppoSed an advertising campaign—m

Benton.

Mr. Cook Writes: ~—

My deep conviction that a. splendid
opportunity is afforded to do a. fine
stroke of business for the bean inter-

ests of Michigan through the proposed»

advertising campaign outlined in your
last issue, leads me to write this com-
munication to your readers.

The effectiveness of advertising is
universally appreciated. The one cent
per hundred which it is proposed the
farmer shall contribute, to be matched
by- an equal amount from the elevator
management, will provide a fund suffi-
cient to provide wide publicity aS'to
the value of beans in general, and of
the Michigan choice hand-picked pea.
bean in particular. We believe’it will
be the best money the bean grower
has ever paid out in connection with
the growing or marketing of his crop.

Campaigns of a similar nature in re—'

spect to other agricultural and horti-
cultural products have proved uniform-
ly successful and satisfactory.

The chief benefits of thiseffort will

 

 

 

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as Satisfactory SEFVIEE Cannot be Ewan in Linsgmd Lattrs

premises for exercise, recreation, or
food. He is liable for their trespasses
and anyone injuring them is liable for
the damage done to the owner of the
doves—Rood.

OAK TREE DAMAGED BY INSECT.

 

We have a. large red oak shade tree
in front of our house which is being
destroyed by worms. They cut off
small branches and twigs, some hang

in the tree and others fall to ground.
They have worked in this tree for a.
number of years, but seem to get
worse. They do not bother a White
oak that is near Have examined the
twigs that fall and there is a grub or
worm about one-half inch long in the
end where it was cut off. Please tell
me if there is any way 0f getting rid
of them?——W. C. K.

The description given by W. C. K.
leads me to believe that the difficulty
is caused by the oak pruner, a. beetle

 

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. to be used for Cbristmas trees ?-~E. F.-

accrue to the boan grower. Such hem
ems as others may receive will be in-
direct. If the elevator operators are
going to take hold of this proposition,
doing without compensation the extra «
clerical work necessary, and at the
same time contributing as much finan-
cial support as the farmers do, they
must be made to feel that the-farmers
are desirous of trying an advertising
campaign. .

In our opinion a general expression
from the growers through the‘ ques-
tionnaire previously published or oth-
erwise, is all that is needed to make
this publicity campaign a reality.
Further, it is our opinion that. without ’
the expressed approval of several
thousand'Michigan growers it will be
impossible to secure the general co-
operation of the elevator operators of
the state. Without their cooperation '
the successful operation of the pro-
posed plan is not possible. The small
expense in time and money necessary
for you to express to the editor of this
paper or the writer of this article, ‘
your position on this question, should
be‘cheerfully contributed in the inter2
ests of one of Michigan’s most suc-
cessful agriCultural enterprises, the
bean industry—A. B. Cook.

which lays its eggs in the twigs. The
egg hatches into' a grub which works
along in the twig for a way and then
cuts the twig almost. off, from the in-
sect outward.

The larvae after cutting the twigs 1
draws back into the nearly severed ‘ .
part of the twig and makes a nest ,
there. In time a high wind usually i
breaks off the twig, which drops to
the ground and the creature changes
to a pu'pa and finally to an adult beetle
which repeats the operation. This re-
sults naturally in a pruning of the L:
tree and usually it is not a .very se- ‘

vere pruning. The way to control the ' ,

pest and the destruction of the insects
is to rake up the twigs as fast as they
fall and destroy them by fire—R. H.-
Pettit, Professor of Entomology.

 

POLICING THE NEIGHBORHOOD.;

 

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him it was nothing that he harbored a ,
man in an old shack who lived off the "
fat of the land, but to the neighbors 1
who depended upon the chickens for

an income it meant much. I

If the farmers in any section would
unite as they are doing in ours, the .1
thieves would have to get down to ‘

irate man with a shot gun, a. big dog
and a. determined effort to banish the
nuisance will work wonders, for the
petty thief is a coward. Some years
back in a nearby county a man lost
his life in a wool raid, and while it ‘
was a deplorable thing, it settled petty , .,
thefts for a long time. Nobody ad< i 1
vises killing the chicken thief, but a ‘1‘
shot to scare is wholesbme, as is also 5
the knowledge that a cross dog is . )
lodged in the chicken house. If you j ‘1‘
don’t protect yourselves you can not ' I
expect the town authorities to do
much.

honest work or leave the country. An 4
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from cutting trees from their own land

   
 

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is from the statutes. Magus, tro

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wa Ford 5 on Tractors

cost 5 o little and give so much

Between the American farmer and—the Ford
organization, there has always been the
closest understanding.

By continuing its service~ to the farmer from.

year to year, the Ford organization is realizc
ing theyFord idea -“greatest service to the
most people”. ‘

To accomplish this, the Ford organization has
acquired and controls vast timber lands, coal
and. iron mines, transportation routes, and
channels of distribution; built giant factories,
mills, foundries, furnaces, warehouses, docks
and power plants. Without these vast Ford
resources, the Fordson Tractor could not be
sold for so little, could not give so much in

superior quality and service.

The Fordson Tractor does more, for less money,
than any other farm power unit. It is a prac—
tical, time-saving aid in plowing, harrowing,
planting, mowing, harvesting, threshing, road—
mending and scraping, timber-cutting and
sawing, hauling, pumping, excavating—in fact
every duty the farmer must perform which ,
requires power. ‘

The Fordson Tractor makes‘farming easier and
more profitable. The Fordson Tractor enables
more work to be done in less time, thus
permitting the farmer to have more leisure for
making his life and the lives of his family hap-
pier and more abundant. By thus lightening
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can Pomological Wet}. which

is to go thrown seventeen states, dip-'

pod into Michigan in the 'JSonthwestern
part of the state on August 21, and

»shook of! Michigan dust in therewith-

east corner on the evening of August
23, when it-entered Ohio to participate
in meetings and tours with the Ohio
State Horticultural Society. '

The general host during the stay in
Michigan was the Michigan State Hort-
icultural Society, which saw it fitting
to make this also the occasion of its

' annual summer tour. The individual

hosts were the many fruit growers
whose places were visited and who
freely showed their places and dis-
cussed the problems which were com-
mon between them and their visitors.
Many added to their hospitality by
serv\ing cooling drinks and other re-
freshments.

The first day was. spent in the south-

western part of the state, known for.

its diversity in fruit-growing. The
early morning drive was through the
pear and small fruit section south of
St.- Joseph. The first stop was at the
Hinkley farm near Riverside, where
strawberries and dewberries are spe-
deities/I
Girdling Starts Productivity.

From there the caravan wended its
way to Coloma and the Friday Broth-
ers’ large cherry and apple orchard.
Here girdled Spy trees and sod mulch-
ed cherries were outstanding features.
Both the Spy and cherry trees were
making too much growth for good pro-
duction, which was checked by the
methods used. «

The next stop was at Robert Sher-
wood’s three—hundred-acre apple or-
chard near Watervliet. Mr. Sherwood
has very rolling land, and, therefore,
keeps his orchard in sod. He said
that scab was quite a. problem with
him this year. Some trees showed
much scab while others had little evi-
dences of the disease. Mr. Sherwood
just returned from a trip {6 New York
and reported that the fruit crops there
were generally good, the winter apple
crop being larger than in Michigan.

After a two-hour drive, 9 dinner stop
was made at Carl Buskirk’s Il’llll. farm
near Lawrence, where the local Lad-

 

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ies’ Aid furnished-o very creditable
dinners After dinner home “the rep-
resents es of the American Porno-
lo'gi nciety gave short. talks. In
behalf of the state society, Mr. James

Nichols urged a support of the nation: _
ai‘ asSociatiOn. Professor Blair, horti-

culturist- at the Illinois Expe'rimeni
Station, told of the purposes of the
national association and the need of

cooperation between State associations “

through the national organization to
stabilize the fruit industry of the cen-
tral west and the east. The American
Pomological Society has taken on new
life in the last few yearmand is now
ofiicered by some of the most capable
horticultnrists in the country. Its pur-
pose is to advertise fruit in order that
consumers may recognize its value in
their diet and thereby, increase the
consumption. It also keeps close tab
on crop conditions and makes fre-
quent reports to their members. ‘
Fruit Consumption Should increase-
Professor Green, of Indiana, gave a
short report of fruit conditions in that

state and then expressed the need of.

advertising the value of fruit. He ‘said
that Detroit consumed on the average
of one car of apples and peaches per
thousand population in a year. In Oth-
er Words, each person in Detroit ate
about one apple every five days,
whereas the consumption ought to be
at least five apples every five days.

Poriessor Roberts, of Wisconsin,
next gave a short talk on the relation
of fruit production and growth, which
was very interesting because he show-
ed that there were some fundamental
conditions necessary for good produc-
tion and the methods used were imma~
terial as long as these conditions were
produced.

Center of Grape Industry.
After dinner
through the Paw Paw grape district,
with a. short stop at the farm of Tom
‘Woodman, who took the fruit growers
to a sightly place on his farm where
he showed them a vineyard thirty-
three years old and told them some-
thing of the history of grape growing
around Paw Paw. The vineyards and
orchards of L C. Dunham, M. H. Pugs-
ley, Mrs. Cora. Morrell, George Low
and the Wildey Vineyard Company,
the latter containing 140 acres of
grapes, were observed on the way to
the M. D. Buskirk farm, Where Pro-
fessor Partridge, of M. A. C., explained
and showed his grape pruning and fer-

tilizing plots.

Some Good Spies.

The' second day of the tour was
spent mostly in traveling from the
southwestern part of the state to the
southeastern section. Only three stops
were made, the first being at Farley
Brothers’ orchard near Albion. The
Farleys have captured the leading
prizes at the Detroit Fair the past few
years with their high quality fruit.
They also have a. Spy orchard which
has become famouse because of its
productiveness, one fourteen-year-old
Spy tree producing thirty bushels last
year. ”

The next stop was at L. W'hitney
Watkins’ orchard, near Manchester,
where there are sixty-five acres of ap-
ples in production. The Huron Farms
Company orchard near Ypsilanti was
the last stop of the day. This com-
pany is a subsidiary of the Detroit
Edison Company and its purpose is to
make profitable the lands Detroit Edi-
son Company has bought for flowage
purposes near their water power sites.
They have '125 acres of apples on this
farm which are just coming into pro-
duction and have under construction
a. forced air storage plant which will
have acapacity of 20,000 bushels and
will cost about $25,000. Their orchards
were tinged entirely, and showed very

   

, near South Lyons.

the drive was made

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seetand'diseasecontrol.
The lastdayof the tour was started
with a drivevaro‘und the Michigan Uni-
versityCampus in _Ann Arbor, and

then the tour through’ Oakland county-

to the orchard or F. '13. swans a Son,
This orchard has
125 acres of apples, plums, peaches
and pears, which have been very prof-
itable. Mr. Simone has also convert-
ed an old barn into an air—coiled stor—
age which has been very valuable in
aidinghim to hold his fruit until the
proper time for selling came. ,

After a drive through the diversified
fruit farm of Don Button, the next
stop was made at the orchard of C. H.
Halstead. Mr. Halstead has been very
successful with sod mulch, his orchard
being on rolling land. Dinner was
served at Orchard Lake, after which
a. short program was given, the main
purpose being to again explain the
value of 'the American Pomological
Society of fruit growers.

Crop Conditions.

The next place visited was the pic‘
turesque country home of Edwin S.
George, with its sunken gardens and
terraces and also 125 acres of dusted
orchards. The last stopping place was
the sly Fruit Farm, west of Birming-
ham, which has become famous be-
cause it has been so ably managed by
the Sly sisters.

In general, the tour revealed a. rath‘
er light crop of late apples, but a fair-1
1y good crop of early ones up to and
including the Grimes Golden. Other
fruit trees were generally well loaded,
except peaches. There are very few
peaches south of Van Buren county,
but from there north the crop is good.
Scab was in evidence in many places,
although some of the orchards were
fairly clean. Aphis injury was much
worse in the eastern part of the state
the soil is light.

Tour a Success.

The first and third days of we tour
than in the southwest section where
were the most popular ones, there be-
ing over sixty-eight cars in line during
the first day and about sixty, during
the tour through Oakland county. The
American Pomological Society mem«
bers said that its Michigan meetings
were more enthusiastic than any they
have held thus far. The Michigan
growers were also responsive in sup-
porting the national organization,
there being about seventy-five mem-
berships pledged.

CULTIVATING ALFALFA.

LFALFA fields that are expected

to stand for several years will
profit by an annual cultivation. The
main reason for it is the elimination
of grass and weeds. On many of our
good alfalfa soils in Michigan, June
grass is prone to cover the ground of
its own accord within a couple of
years, and if it is allowed togrow‘
among the alfalfa plants it will event
ually take possession and crowd out
much of the alfalfa.

Thorough cultivation with a spring
tooth barrow, once each year, will
keep this natural growth of June grass
in check and will scarcely injure the
long, tough, tap roots of the alfalfa
To be most effective it
is necessary to give this harrowing in
a rather dry time, otherwise June
grass is not easily killed. Neither can
it well be given after the plants have
made much growth- , ,

Perhaps the best time on most Mich-
igan fields would be immediately after
the removal of the first crop if ground
is reasonably dry. In many fields, deg
pending upon weather and soil condi.
tions. as good results might be obtain-
ed if the cultivation is delayed until.
the second crop has been removed.

 
    
  

 

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ANY cow testers in Michigan re-
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, itry Department of the Michigan Agri-
.ccult'ural College.
' fin poultry culling attracted cow test-
’ 3°17? because of the similarity of the

' culling work and the cow testing

This special course

work. The value of knowing poultry

'Vmethods and being acquainted with
‘ the culling work makes the cow test-

er ' more, valuable to his association
members.‘ The Michigan cow testers

~ realize that, a spirit of service along

varied activities of farm life go a long
way toward helping put over the cow

- testing association job.

Genesee ‘ county and the seven cow
testers, under the leadership of Coun-
ty Agent S. S. Smith, attended this
special poultry course in one hundred
per cent fashion. County Agent Smith
believes, that his testers were bene-
fited immensely to enable them to re-
turn to their associations and be of
greater value to Genesee county dairy-

' men. Cow testers from other coun-

ties were also, present, namely, Ma-
comb, Monroe, Eaton, Sanilac and

‘ Ingham.

MAKES RECORDS ON TWO MILK-
" INGS PER DAY.

 

HAT Jersey cow of mine sure is a

dinger,” said Rufus Sage to George
McWise, his neighbor. “What do you
know. Yesterday’she gave 59.9 pounds
of milk. Some record, eh?"

“That is some record,” McWise
sneered. “But I’ll tell the cockeyed
world that I wouldn’t get up in the
middle of the night to milk the best
Jersey~ cow that ever came down the
pike, if she was going to give 59.9
pounds in a day. And thisbusiness of
monkeying around with a cow’s feed,
trying to whet up her appetite so she
will eat a few more pounds of grain,
that’s all fol-de-rol. If they’d make
these records with fivo milkings a day

‘ and on farm-grown grains, I could take

more stock in them—but they don’t.”
He jerked cut this last statement in
utter disgust. .

This conversation quoted from Mc—
Wise expresses about the, opinion
many farmers have of the records that
are often quoted in the papers.

These men ought 'to visit the little
Jersey herd of C. E. George in Branch
county, for here they would find just
what they are looking for. Cows that
have made wonderfully good records
on but two milkings a day, and not

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and winter.

edge and method of feeding.

should be used to the limit.

or produce a substitute.

early frost.
to this threatened danger a
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”the feeds that are grown on the farm.

Silo Cfloapem lfle Ration
By A. L.

PRESENT indications point to high grain and forage this fall

Corn is already mounting and with a short hay
crop in many sections, we can look for high-priced forage. This
, means it will be necessary to practice economy in feeding. The
live stock keeper, as a rule, loses or gains according to his knowl-

Silage is the best substitute for both hay and pasture and it
The cheapest forage is in the form
of silage, and as it is a bulky ration it should be grown on the farm
and supplied -in liberal quantities.

A good many of our stock keepers will find themselves short on
forage and hay, which will mean that they must either purchase
Why not put up another silo and fill it
with corn grown on the farm or purchased from the neighbor? As
much of our corn is late, it looks as though it might be lost by an
Such fields can be purchased at a low price, owing
d the crop can be insured with a silo.

of the ration, make sure a profit from
the live stock, and greatly increase the value of the crops. As a
rule, a silo will pay for‘itself the first year. What other farm in-
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babied and coddled, but getting only

Several things about this herd are
remarkable. In the first place, there
are only nine cows in it, and eighteen
animals in the entire herd-only
eighty acres in the farm. And yet
here is quality plus for there is one
gold"medal c0w and three silver medal
cows. One cow, Jacoba’s Golden Mel-
ia Ann, has two gold medals, which
means that she has produced at least
400 pounds of butter-fat in a year and
carried a calf nine months of that
year. This. cow did this on two milk-
ings per day. Her first medal was
awarded on her ’1921 production. In
1923, she returned the compliment
when _at,seven years and five months
of age she produced 12,903 pounds of
milk, which contained 768.47 pounds of
butter~fat. -

Three cows- have produced at least
300 pounds of butter-fat in a year and
carried a calf nine months out of this
year.

Just a word about the feeding which
George gives these cows to secure
such results. In the morning, three
pecks of ensilage to each cow. On top
of this, a grain mixture consisting of
equal parts by weight of ear corn and
oats, ground together. George says,
the crushed corn cobs take the place
of bran that some folks mix in, and at
much less expense. After milking,
about as much alfalfa hay as they will
eat up in thirty minutes. About
ten o’clock in the winter, they are let
out and stay out until four if it is
clear weather, getting cornstalks or
alfalfa hay out in the yard. At night,
about the same routine is repeated ex-
cept that at eight, the owner goes out
and gives each cow as much alfalfa
hay as he has learned she will con-
sume by morning.

“‘No milking four times a day for
me,” said George.
make a good record on ordinary farm
care, she isn’t bred right and I don’t

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want her around.”—I. T. M.

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I have a cow, the milk from which I
tastes bitter. Can you give any rea-
son for this ?——T. ..W

Many times milk will turn bitter af-
ter ,standing for a long time, say a
day or two. This is due to the pres-
ence of a certain bacteria. I can see
no reason why fresh milk from this
cow should be bitter. All the feeds
which you mentioned are good. If
the milk is bitter when first drawn-
from the cow’s udder, I would advise
you to consult a veterinarian.

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as} her to tie up to a thin3

Wt the way you do, 1-

Bill said} with a sick3rin.
wusorryandallthathutit
he. It’sllanee'l'ith eight.

wdouhtotthat.” ‘

{.l”&exciaimud lath). “Notthat.

slug! Did shts‘aysorlg’htout?"
More or less,” Bill admitted. "I
it up to her and she would not

it,”
wan. you just wait here,” I said,
I! don’t you move until I come
. I'll» settle this Rance Tither-

,Iwasoflinarushandlfound

Abundant without any trouble I ask-

.ed her if she could spare a. couple of

minutes and we went out on the side

"porch and I made her take a seat. I

hesitated awhile, trying to get things

straight in my mind, so I could say.

' them in the proper way.

- _ “It’s like this, Miss Abundant”!
said finally; “I've been cheating you.
I’ve been fooling you and playing a
trick on you. I’m ashamed of it and
I confess it but I did think I was
doing the right thing, and that is my
excuse.”

Just then a chicken came along,
pecking at the grass out in f1ont of
us. It was a. white chicken, a hen, and
along behind it came half a dozen
-_ chicks, a. late season batching of them.
The hen started to come up on the
L porch.

“Shoo!” said Abundant.

“Very well! Very well!” said the
white hen. “Don’t get excited.”

"My gracious!” Abundant cried. “Am
I mad ?” and she looked up at the tree
Where the little bird had said “Sweet-
1 heart!” the day I came back from New
York.

“Don’t; worry,” I said, sarcastically.
“That’s Bill. I’m going to tell you
everything. And, first of all, I want
to tell you that Bill is not half as bad
as you may think he is.”

“I don’t,” said Abundant.
think he is bad at all.”

“All right, then,” I said. “First I
want to confess that When that Bish-
op’s Pulpit fell and killed your father
it spoiled the seven echoes in your
cave. It killed all seven of them; not
an echo was left. And you know what
that meant to the cave. It Iuined it.”

She simply stared at me.

“Yes,” I said, “I know what you are
thinking. The cave has kept right on
echoing. That’s right enough, but I’m
to blame for that. I was a coward
and held back the truth from you, and
I went up to New York and hired Bill
for you, and Bill is a ventriloquist.”

“He is a—?” she asked. '

“Ventriloquist,” I said. ,“A voice
thrower. And old Simeon is another.
I thought I could keep the dead ech-
oes from your knowledge and let Bill
take the tourists through and do the
echoes for them.”

“But Why?" she asked.

"On account of Rance Titherweight,”
I said, “and on account of you being

'alone in the world. And unable to
support yourself and all. I don’t ex-

“1 don’t

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poet you to forgive me, but that don‘t

matter, I th'ongh't -I was doing right. ”.

“hut why should you do it far me?”
she asked.
“We,” I said, right out flat,

“this care without the echo is not
worth the powder to him-git up, and»

Rance 'l'itherweight was making eyes
at you. Suppose you married him-—
he would find out the cave was worth-
less and he would treat you mean."
“Treatme mean?” she asked. “Don't
you think he cares for me for myself,
then, at all?” ‘
I did not answer that; I did- not like
But the white hen did.

come and it all worked wen; And it
will continue to werk well. Simeon
is not as good as Bill at voice-throw-
ing, but he makes a good enough echo.
So why don‘t you just let things go on
as they are?”

“Am I not going to?” she asked.

"Well, no!” I said. “I don‘t think
you are, and that’s the trouble. You're
going to marry Rance.”

"Who said that?”

“Bill did.‘ He practically said you
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THE BR 001g

By Teresa

A merry little brooklet,
A-wandering through the glade.
My traveling never tires me
Because with pleasant novelty
The journey’s always laid.

My starting point upon the way

ls a sparkling crystal spring.
Beneath a spreading willow tree
Which waves a fond farewell to me
As down the road l fling.

No pack have I to carry,

No thought for food or drink,
A happy mood is all I need
And so I hasten on with speed
To reach the river’s brink.

The rising sun salutes me

As I wend my joyful way,

And to stones as smooth as satin,
l murmur my “Good Métin”

Thus beginning the new day.

I pass tall trees and tiny shrubs,
Whose every quivering leaf
Bespeaks their wish that also they

Could from their moorings break away

And share a holiday brief.

But they must stay to furnish shade
For travelers from afar,

Who pause beneath their home to rest
Welcoming Nature’s ample breast,
Ere comes the Evening Star.

G. Morris

Sometimes my way is straight ahead
And then again I pause a spell

Thru green-hood dale and hollow.
And with a leap and gurgling yell

A winding trail I follow.

l have the clouds for company,
And with them often race,

. Sometimes with slow majestic tread

They march or pause right o’er my head
Their movements full of grace.

The wayside flowers greet me

With modesty so sweet,

And little birds upon the tree

Sing all their newest songs for me ‘
With melody so sweet. ‘

The children peer into my face
Their images to see

And to reward them for their smiles
l mirror all their gayest wiles

And playful pollity.

Haw can l help but love it?
This carefree life of mine,
Wandering thru the‘ leafy glade,
Whether in sunshine or in shade
Each woodland dell a shrine!

Why should I fret or frown or sigh
My way leads on forever,

And with a song

l’ll jog along

To meet the gentle river.

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"Not a. bit, the fat serpent!” the
white hen seemed to say. “He don't
care a darn for you.”

“Excuse me a minute,” I said to
Abundant, “I’m going to find Bill and
knock his head off. I won’t have him
butting in on this. conversation.”

'Abundant put out her hand.

“No, don’t!” she said. “What does
it matter?”

“Very well,” I said. “I’ll go on with
my story. I thought, if Rance married
you, you would be unhappy, and to
marry him seemed the only thing you
could do. If you did not he would
foreclose the mortgage and throw you

‘AL ACREb—fl Free Ride on fll’r Fem} W/zg’el.

She did not deny it. She looked at
the white hen and at the late-hatch
chickens and said nothing.
you’ll be unhappy every day of your

“All right, then,” I said, taking a
new grip in my courage, “I ask you
not to marry that Rance fellow. He’s
a crook and a slimy character and
life. Take Bill instead. I know Bill
and I know he is better” than most
fellows. Give him a chance. Don’t
turn him down the first shake out of
the box. Let him have a chance to
show you what a real man he is.”

Abundant looked out across the
grass patch. She let her hands rest

but, and then he would discover the 7
echo was dead and he would make all ‘

no chance the
“She don’t care forgBiil at ails
were a man—A” » ’

“Di-at you!” I cried, and I raised- an

and felt for somethin3 to throw. I "
ma nothing but my hat, and I threw ’

that. The hen souawked and scattered, *
away.

“I’ll go around and paste Bill one in
the jaw in a minute,” I said. ‘

Up in the tree a sparrow fluttered
from one twig to another. , '

“Sweetheart! Sweetheart!” it chirp-
ed in real words.

I looked out and down the road, too
far to threw his voice to us, was Bill
——golng to the station to buy a ticket,
I suppose. Over in the cave lot; al—
most as far away, was old Simeon. NI
looked at Abundant again, and she
was just as before, looking out across
the lot, with her lips just parted. Then
the old white hen came back a step
or two and looked up at me doubt-

~ fully, not knowing whether I would

throw another hot or not.

“Excuse me,” said the white hen as
meek as Moses, "I just came back to
say that if I were a than and cared ’
anything for a. lady I would speak for
myself." . .

I swear I was trembling all over. I
tuined to Abundant and put out my
hand.

“Could you?” I stammered.
you love me, Abundant ?”

She gave a. sort of sob and put both
her hands in mine.

“Oh, Sam! you are such a fool!” she
said, and then we laughed and every-
thing was all right forever.

.“And how was I to know you had
the voice—throwing trick yourself?” I
asked her some time later, when
things had loosened up so that I had
only one arm round her.

“As if father would figure to leave

me a cave as a legacy without prepar-
ing me to keep the echo going!” she
cried.
' That’s all. Jed had been a voice
thrower himself. There never had
been any real V‘cho in Seven Echoes
Cave. \ It is simple enough when you
know the trick; Abundant taught me
in less than a week. Since she has
the children to look after I show the
visitors through the cave myself. We
are prospering nicely and next’year
when I get the last of the mortgage
paid off, I’m thinking of putting in an.
extra echo. I won ’t change the name
of the cave but I believe in giving full
measure and running over, my own
blessings, so to speak, having been
Abundant.” THE END.

“Could

The acreage of potatoes in Michigan
this year is placed at 301,000 acres,
which is the lowest since 1919. The
acreage in Minnesota and New York
is larger. The condition on July 1 in-
dicated a crop of 372,968,000 bushels,
which is 40,000,000 less than the crop
of last year, and 80,000,000 bushels
less than the one of two years ago.

By Fran/2' R. Leet.’

 

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cL . mrIVirlEs GROW-

 

, HERE are fourteen hoys’ and girls’

clubs in Schoolcraft county, .with
118 members, according to a recent
repert of Mr. P. G. \Lundin, county
club leader. The membership last year
was only sixty-eight. Of these clubs,
six are canning clubs, three calf clubs,
and one poultry club. Exhibits are
being prepared for the fair and the

’ Chatham club camp.

 

'esems PRACTICAL FOREST
. ' WORK.

 

HE Upper Peninsma branch of the
‘ Lake' States Forest Experiment
Station cf the United States Forest
Service, will be located near Au Train
between Marquette and Munising. The
tract comprises virgin hardwood tim-
ber and was placed at the disposal of
the forest service by the Cleveland-
CIlfls Iron Company, one of the larg-
est woods operators in the peninsula,
and long, known to be interested in
the problem of reforestation.

Hr. Raphael Zen. of the forest ser-
vice, has several times been in the
peninsula this summer working out
the details of the project, which will
be under his general and very compe-
tent direction. Timber on the tract
will be harvested under rules of the

forest service with a view to protect:

ing young and second-growth timber.
Under-brush will be disposed of so as
to favor natural reforestation It is
well understood that artificial planting
can only .to a slight degree reforest
the cut-over region, and in this refor-
estation tract parent trees will be left
standing to provide seed for natural
reforestation.

The Au Train property will be held
by the forest service under a 100-year
lease with the renewal privilege. The
project is one of great interest to the
farmers of both peninsulas since they
are vitally concerned in the conserva-
tion of the timber supply and the re-
forestation of the waste places of the
state. These lands are in many sec-
tions better adapted for forest culture
than for agriculture.

CUTS DOWN COSTS OF CARING
FOR THE POOR.

 

- HILE we are seeking to reduce
taxes, the problem of reducing
the cost of county and township local
poor relief is of concern to the rural
as well as the urban sections of the
state. Marquette county has tried out
a new system of administering poor
relief which shows what can be ac-
complished when systematic relief is
substituted for haphazard granting of
doles Where, as like as not, they are
not required.

In 1922 poor relief in Marquette
county—which is the largest, though
by no means the most populous, coun-
ty in the state—cost over $102,000.
The next year the outlay was reduced
by about $14,000. During the first sev-
en months of the present fiscal year,
the expense for poor relief has amount-

.ed to only $44,000.

This saving has come about mainly
through a new system of investigating
carefully every case that calls for
county aid and the granting of such
aid only to such persons as clearly are
entitled to it, and for as long a time
only as they are entitled to it.

Time was when poor persons were
put. on the county and left there indefi-
nitely without further inquiry into
their case. Now there is a periodic
checking up. Local supervisors grant
ed ‘local relief under the old system
and there was no recheck to determ-

inewhen aid-was not required. -

. Under the new system the supervis-

. ore port‘names of persons believed

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county mam _-o: superintendents of
thepoor. The board has a field score
tary who investigates all of these cas-
es. The field secretary’s report and
recommendation is reviewed by the
board before relief is granted, if grant-
ed at all. This is done monthly. Emer-
gency cases are handled by the field
secretary on consultation with a mem-
ber of the board. .‘Red-tape is elimi-
nated so far as possible.

Saving also,comes from the present
system ‘of making purchases on 313‘
count of poor relief. Purchases are
made locally‘after bids are submitted
to the superintendents of the poor.
The board submits blank forms to lo-
cal provision merchants indicating
what supplies are wanted, and invites
tenders. A contract to furnish staple

'articles is entered into with'one local

provision merchant for one month
only. The lowest bidder gets the con-
tract. The county determines the kind
and quality of goods purchased on its
account. Any bills for goods are item-
ized and audited by the board before
they are paid. . '

'It is well known that there is a good
deal of “sponglng” on the county in
the granting of poor relief. Farmers
who have to earn their own living by
hard work are not willing to provide
better food and clothing for these
“spongers” than they themselves
enjoy.

The Marquette county system is
worth looking into by other counties
where this problem has not yet been
solved. Houghton county some years
ago organized its superintendents of
the poor into a public relief commis-
sion with similar good results, it is
believed. Probably an investigation in
other counties would show some sur-
prising results calling for the installa-
tion of a better system of poor relief
and accounting.

PRESERVE FORESTS BY THE
ROADSIDE.

 

RON county has undertaken a

Unique program of forest preserva-
tion and the preservation of the beau-
ty of its country roads. It plans to
acquire stretches of timber along its
trunk-line highways extending 200 feet
on either side of the thoroughfare.
The timber is largely virgin and will
be purchased from land OWners on a
stumpage basis.

Mr. M. J. Fox, of Iron Mountain,
public spirited citizen and large lum-
berman, had previously directed his

wood-choppers not to cut timber with- _

in this area and this is said to have
led to the county’s undertaking the
plan of preserving timber along the
highways. Steps have already been
taken, it is reported, to acquire stand-
ing timber along Highway ‘23, between
Iron River and the Brule Rive-r. An~
other stand of timber on trunk line
79 towards Amasa it is planned to ac-
quire. In the western section of the
county between Elmwood and Beach-
wood, is another tract which will be
secured, it is reported. This stretch
includes the Golden Lake Park already
donated to the county by Mr. Fox.

WILL STUDY FUR RESOURCES.

 

A DIVISION of Fur Resources, with

F. G. Ashbrook in charge, has .
been established in the Bureau of Bio- ‘

logical Survey, Department of Agricul-
ture. The work of this new division

will be the study of fur-bearing ani—_

mals in captivity to determine econom-
ical methods of raising them; to de-
velop by breeding improved strains,
and to study and determine methods
of preventing diseases of fur bearing
animals. The utilization of fur, land
utilization for fur production, and mar-
ketslfor fur will also be investigated.
It is estimated that there are now
about, 1,200 farmers in the United
States and Alaska, with— a total invest-
ment of from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000.

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Berries!

Berry canning is very easy.
Wash the berries and pack
inf'glass jars without
blanching. F i t a n e w
GOOD LUCK rubber‘ ring
on each jar. Make a me-
dium syrup by boiling four
cups of sugar in two quarts
of water, fill up the jars with
the hot syrup and sterilize
15 to 20 minutes according to
the ripeness of the fruit.
Seal at o n c e on removing
from the canner.

If the canned berries are for
exhibition or sale, it is a good
plan to let them stand in the
sugar syrup for several hours
before sterilizing. This will
help to keep the fruit from
rising to the top of the liquid.

GOOD ”@5 LUCK
JAR RUBBERS

are essential to good canning
because they afford a perfect
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and let in air even when the
food is stored several years.

GOOD LUCK Jar Rubbers are
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A Play Suit Pattern that 23 Easy to Mate

ACATION time is here and the

little people need some simple,

easily made, easily laundered
play clothes. The kind that mother
won’t mind having them romp and
race and climb in. Try overalls out
like the pattern below. ‘

There are no slits down the sides
and no side seams, so they are very
simple to makeuj Just stitch up the
front and back seams, turn them down
and stitch again for strength. Now
sew up the legs and hem them at the
bottom. Bind all the way around the
top with strong binding. Make the
shoulder straps and stitch to the back
about an inch and a half or two inch-

es from the cen-
ter seam. Sew
’ them together
about half way up
the back and sew
some old garter
fasteners to the
ends. Put buttons
on the ends of bib
in front. .Add a
pocket or two and
they are ready for immediate wear.

One yard of denim will make a pair
for a child of live. It takes three yards
to make a pair for each of my boys,
aged eight and ten. My daughter also
had a pair. They are better to romp

and play and climb in than any dress, ‘

or than bloomers. With her bobbed
hair and her overalls my little girl
made a good-looking little chap and
fooled the neighbors into taking her
for one of her brothers.

I make the overalls long for winter
to save the stockings, and short for
summer because it’s cooler. Denim
will shrink quite a lot so they should
be quite roomy to start with. I buy
the material in ten-yard bolts because
it is cheaper that way. I can make a
pair in an hour.—E. H. Davey.

FAMILY COOPERATION.

 

S mother of seven children, six

girls and one boy, the oldest thir-
teen years of age and the youngest
nine months, I am busy at all times.
As I work out of doors part of the
time, we must all work together. I
never give the children the same work
twice in one day. The two oldest
girls can cook and bake as good as
mother, and so change about. The
third washes dishes, while the fourth
wipes them. Little sister entertains
baby, and brother carries in the wood
and water. When mother comes in
from the garden work, everything is
in order. On school days they all do
up their work before leaving for
school, and everyone wants to do their
work the quickest and neatest. .

I never buy them for work, but buy
them little things Lhear them speak
of that they would like. When morn-
ing Comes they are all eager to know
what they can do during the day.

When the work is done we play a
new game for an hour. One of the
girls does a little, plain sewing, while
the other mends. After supper brother
takes care of the chickens. Every
evening one child plans what to do
after supper, for we are neVer too
tired to play games, sing, read, pop
com or make candy.———Mrs. F. H.

PICNIC AT HOME.

 

GOOD rest tonic for the busy
mother is the out-of-door picnic,
if she doesn’t go to any more bother
in preparing the lunch than she w'duld

at home It will be found a. real rest
and rel’axatiOn to pack a simple lunch,
about four o’clock in the afternOOn,
and with the family stroll out to a
secluded corner of the orchard or farm
woodlot. Be sure, though. that you
leave the cares of the hot kitchen and
the worries of the home behind you

and enjoy a few' hours “next to nature.” .

Many of us are not aware of the
splendid places cf picnickin'g that we
have right on our own farms. One
woman writes of the discovery she
made. On their farm was a small
creek that meandered its way through
the pasture field. 0n the banks of this

 

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creek a half mile from the house was
a. clump of trees. The farm wife
writes, “Not until a city family tour-
ing through this country asked per-
mission to picnic there for a few
hours did I consider the spot as avail-
able for this pleasure. Since that
awakening the family has spent many
restful hours there.”

In arranging a picnic, be sure the
lunch is not elaborate. Food is en-
joyed so much more in the open air

 

that the family will never miss the 5

ilxin' s. Simnle sandwiches of egg,
cheese, lettuce with mayonnaise (1'
fruit butters are delicious. Do not
make sandwiches too thin and dainty

for the out-of-doors appetite is quite,

dinerent from the in—do’or one“ The
pickle plays the accompaniment for
the picnic sandwich.

A baked dish 'may be carried in a .

basket and will keep warm it wrapped
in waxed paper and then in several

thicknesses of newspaper. Escalloped ,,

potatoes are enjoyed and when baked
in layers with ham are extra fine.
Fresh vegetables are the least both

 

by Mrs. J. H., Warren, Michigan.

er and the most enjoyed. Tomatoe-
may be eaten like apples with salt, or
sliced and served with dressing. Cei-
ery, lettuce and radishes are also eas-
ily carried.

Plan some dessert, and, with a. cold
drink of milk or iced tea, refresh-
ments are complete. Last, but not
least, don’t forget paper plates, cups,
napkins and table cloth, and remember
that the picnicshould be arranged to
save work and .not make extra work.

Kitchen MeditatiOns

By a Farmer’: W I}?

HEN our twoyear—old baby

\l" climbs out of bed, he usually

runs to the window. and looks
out. “Pitty day, Mama,” he will say,
“Pitty day.” ' He has made me appre-
ciate the “pretty days” and the beauty
that it is our privilege to see and en-
joy. Think how different life would
be if you could not see a pretty day.

Sister Nellie just wishes her chil-
dren's lives away. When they’re bab-
ies she wishes they were big enough
to walk; when they’re walking she
wishes they were older so that they'd
know enough not to run away; when
they’re older she wishes they could go
to school, and so on. I suppose when
they’re getting married she’ll cry and
wish that they were babies again.

As Mrs. “Jake” and Mrs. “Louis”
were coming home from the Sunday
School picnic with me they were com-
menting on Mrs. “Jim’s” clothes. She
must spend a lot of money for them,
they both agreed—she always looks
so nice. Now I know that Mrs “Jim”
doesn't have anything nicer than eith-
er of them—she just takes better care
of. her clothes. But I didn’t quite like
to tell them that.

, ml in what they say?——E. M. clerk.

Grandma Jones was crying the oth-
er day when I dropped in to see her.
It seems that When she had last vis-
ited at her son’s she noticed that the
large photograph .of his father had
been taken down from the wall of the
front room and relegated to the attic.
“They aren’t keeping pictures like that
around any more, Mother,” her daugh-
ter-in-law Jane told her.

"Well, maybe they aren’t,” said
Grandma, “But I notice you’re mighty
glad to hold onto the farm Grandpa.
left you and John.”

Now, wouldn’t it have been nice if
Jane and John had had a small picture
of Grandpa made and appropriately
framed and rehung in the living-room?
This way they have inflicted a life-
long hurt on Grandma—there are some

things more important than “style" in ’

a house.

Young Dick, who works for us,
laughed when he heard his father tell
an insurance agent that Dick wasn’t
worth taking out an insurance for, but
I've noticed he’s been blue and hasn’t
acted the same toward him ever since.
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your household problems. ddress
.your letters to Martha Cole, Michigan
Farmer, Detroit, Mich. '

 

STU FFED PEPPERS.

 

, Will you please send me recipe for
stuffed green'pepeprs?—‘—Mrs. C.

"Clean and soak three dozen peppers
in salt water over night. Chop line
One head of cabbage, three green to-
matoes and three bunches of celery.
Let stand for four hours and add two
teaspoons of white mustard seed, two
teaspoons of celery seed, two tea-
spoons ofgrated horseradish and fill
peppers. Boll one quart of water, two
quarts. of vinegar, two cups sugar for

' thirty minutes and pour over peppers

while hot.

MAYONNAISE OR SALAD DRESS-

me.

{Is mayonnaise and salad dressing
theusame, and if different how do you
make them?—Mrs. G A

.-,Salad dressing usually means a
cooked dressing mad'e'as follows:

, v‘~- Yolks of 3 eggs 1 cup Weak vinegar

3 tb. sugar 5th. salt

5:5...1tb. flour. ash of cayenne
" )1 :tb. mustard 3 tb. butter

fMix. dry ingredients. Heat vinegar
infidouble boiler and add butter. Beat
yolks of eggs, add dry ingredients to
eggs and then slowly add hot vinegar.
Cook 'all together, stirring constantly
until mixture thickens. Use with any
kind of salad. Whipped cream may be
added before serving to make the mix«
ture richer. .'
‘ To make mayonnaise use:

1 tsp. mustard Yolks or 2 eggs

( 2 tsp. salt 2 tb. lemon juice

1 tsp. powdered sugar 2 tb. vinegar
Few grains cayenne 1% cups olive oil

 

Mix dry ingredients, add egg yolks
and when well mixed add one-half tea-
Add 'on gradually,

spoon of vinegar.

 

’ gloss, and it will also stay on longer,

at first drop by drop, and stir con-
stantly. ‘As mixture thickens, thin with
vinegar or lemon juice. Add oil and
vinegar, or lemon juice alternately uno
til all isused, stirring or beating “con-
stantly. If oil is added too rapidly,
dressing will have a curdled appear-
ance. A smooth consistency may be
restored by taking yolk of another
egg, and adding curdled mixture slow-
ly to it. Olive oil for making mayon-
naise should always be thoroughly
chilled. Mayonnaise should be stiff
enough to hold its shape. It soon
liquefies when added to meat or veg-
etables; therefore it should be added
just before serving time. .

MINT JELLY.

 

Please send me a recipe to make.
mint jelly—Mrs. J. M.
For mint jelly use:
35 cup chopped mint
leaves
1-3 cup boiling water
' Apple pectin is made by cooking one
pound of apple pulp and three table-
spoons of lemon juice in five cups of
water and straining. Pour boiling wa-
ter over the mint and allow to steep
one hour, keeping the bowl covered.
Strain and press to extract the juice.
Boil pectin and sugar. When jellying
stage is reached add vegetable color-
ing and pour in sterilized glasses.

2 min: apple pectin
2 cups sugar

SPIC AND SPAN HINTS.
O

l

HEN polishing my kitchen range,

I find I can get a much better

 

by using five or six drops of vinegar
in the 'blacking.

When my silver needs cleaning, I
place it in potato water while I go
ahead with some other task. After a
few hours wash as usual—Mrs. R. C.

 

 

 

 

Doings In Woodland

A: #265 C rhrrroadr

EE, fie, bee, four, I wish I had

some more,” sang Willie Wood-

chuck as he finished the last sug-
ar cookie that Old Mother Coon had
given him.

“,Me, too,” said Johnnie Muskrat,
“I’m still a little hungry, but I’m tick-
led that we are on our way home. I
don’t think I want to go sailing on a
log again.”

“Mrs. Coon, said we would be home
by afternoon,” said Jackie Rabbit, “but
we must walk faster.”

“I can’t walk much faster,” puffed

 

The Sign at the Crossroads wasTopsy-
Turvy. ‘ ‘

Willie Woodchuck as. he waddled

along the road that Mrs. Coon said .

would take them 'back to Woodland
and home. Soon they came near the
crossroads where she had said a sign
‘ ouldtellthm which road to

W ‘ As they came to

   
 

  

this post they were very puzzled. No,
it was not because these three little
Woodland boys could not read. for
they were the best pupils in the VVood-
land school, mischief excepted. But
a big puff of wind had blown that way,
or someone had hurried around the
corner too fast. The sign post which
was to tell them the way home was
topsy-turvy. \

On one board was printed “S’tonéy-l
ville” and on the other “Woodland,”
but they both pointed “hitch-a-cue”
angles toward the blue sky.

“Well, well, well, this is a real mix-
up,” said Jackie Rabbit scratching his
head. “We can’t follow the sign post
to Woodland, because it points up i)
that big fleecy cloud. What had we
best do?”

“I think this road goes to VVnod—
land,” said Johnnie Muskrat, pointing
to the right.

“I’m sure it is this one,” said Jackie
vRabbit, pointing to the one to the left.

.Willie Woodchuck said nothing, for
he was getting too tired to_ bother to
think.

“That’s more of a puzzle still,” said
Jackie Rabbit. “Perhaps we had bet-
ter draw cuts. We will go with the
one who gets the longest cuts.”

“Fine,” agreed Johnnie and Willie.

When Willie had carefully prepared
the draws, Johnnie Muskrat pulled the
longest one, so off they started down
the roadto the right, hoping to reach
Woodland before the sun went down.

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Does your kitchen stove
take the starch out of you?

k If you have the right kind of range you will not

dread the summer cooking

WHAT can Wilt you more
completely—your gown,
your hair, your spirits—than a
roaring fire in the cook stove?
For, even in winter, getting a
big dinner usually means an
overheated kitchen.

The moment you put a Flor-
ence Oil Range in your kitchen,
you will realize that it is quite
possible to cook with the great-
est amount of comfort. The
clear, blue flame
of the Florence is

 

the cooking and
remains there—
its heat does not
spread out over
the room. This
flame is of great
intensity, but by
simply turning a
lever it can be re—
, duced to'a sim-
mering heat. You can bake,
roast, fry, boil with this mod-
ern range.

You light the stove and have
a good clean heat; when dinner
is ready to serve, you put out
the fire and forget it until you
are ready to get the next meal.

 

The Big
Burners
keep the flame
close up under
the cooking. This
means economy

of fuel.

 

 

Easy to start

There is no smoke, no soot, no
shaking of the stove, no ashes.

close up under

All you have to do to start the
Florence is to turn a lever and-
touch a match to the Asbestos
Kindler. In a few minutes a
gas-like flame rises to the top of
the burner. This flame is not a
wick flame. It is produced from
kerosene vapor. '

Kerosene is cheap and always
obtainable. The oil tank, made
of metal, is easy to keep clean
and will not break.

And so good- looking

The modern housewife tries to
make her kitchen just as attractive
as any room in the house. And the
Florence is so good—looking, with
its lustrous enamel and nickel trim-
ming, that it is an ornament to the
most carefully equipped kitchen. It
is made of the very finest material.

If you will examine the Florence ”
at a hardware or furniture dealer’s,
you will be'surpriscd at its many
conveniences and refinements.

Send for free booklet

You should know
the facts about oil
stoves. We have told
the story in a way
that interests you
in our booklet “Get
Rid of the ‘Cook “PER, ,,
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line and we shall be g‘ggg-ggggaggufi;
glad to send it to

in any kind of
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By Osmond L. Beckwith, Ovid, Mich. horses for hay slings and the wagon.

One day last summ r my cousin and
Iput onasho i-o -arn. We
made signs advertising t show, and
drew arrows on the sign , pointing to-
ward our barn.

0n the day of the show we had a
parade. Our dog was put in a slatted
box and carried on an express wagon.
He was the lion. Another box held
sister’s kitty, and the sign on her box
read, “Wild Cat from the Jungle.”
Sister’s pet lamb was led with a rope.
She was a Rocky Mountain goat.

I had a great time catching two
guineas and a rooster, whose cage we
labeled, “Wild Birds from Africa.” We
» put a little red dye on the rooster’s
wing and tail feathers to make him
look different.

I beat a drum and my cousin played
a'mouth organ during the parade.

We had the show in the afternoon.

small phonograph furnished the
music. My cousin and I boxed for the
first event. A girl cousin did a snake
dance, which got a lot of applause.
For an encore she sang “Oui, Oui,
Marie.”

Then we had a sort of a dialogue
which consisted of questions and an-
swers relating to the folks present.
That caused lots of laughs.

I almost forgot the trapeze act, and
pictures from a home-made moving
picture machine.

We took in $1.25 and sixty pins. My
mother gave me five cents for the
pins, so my cousin and I each cleared
sixty-five cents.

 
  
 

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By Mildred D. Coffman, M. C-, St.
Johns, Michigan.
Two years ago this summer my fath-
er thought there would not be many

    

   

   

  

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By Russell Carter, Middleville, Mich.

red raspberries so he told me he would
pay me five cents a quart for all I
picked. That seemed to me to be a
fine thing, as I liked berries and liked
to pick them.

I took my dishes out into the berry
patch so I would not have to be run-
ning to the house all the time.

Rains came and the berry bushes
began to blossom some more. They
, started to ripen about the fourth of

'July. The berries were good-sized.
They lasted about three weeks. At

first it was fun, but after a few days
‘ the sun began to get hotter, and it be-
‘ gan to be tiresome.

" Of course, I helped my mother and~

my little sister do up the work in the
house, and since it was haying time I
helped in the haying by driving the

I managed to pick ninety-six quarts.
I had a record, so I knew how much ,
to tell my father to pay me. I earned
$4.80. I thought that was pretty good

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Tflat Have Been Desired éy filer/1y Circle”. 1 . ' -‘ ,

  

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and the furs properly taken care of.
During the past year, or trapping sea-
son, I made nearly $45 trapping. I'
caught twenty-sixmuskrats. ,
The best place to set a trap is wher

 

These Club Leaders of the 'Upper Peninsula Club Camp, Chatham, Lead the
Young Folks to a Good Time.

for one summer’s work. I; was only
eleven years old.

ey I earned in the bank.

 

By Floyd Halpen, M. C., North Branch,
Michigan.

There are several good ways of
making money. During the period
from November until the end of
March, the easiest way to make money
is trapping. Most any boy can make
good money if his traps are set right

I deposited the mon-

the muskrats come out of the water
on to the land. _

When the trapping season is over
and spring has come I prepare a small
piece of ground for cucumbers. I also
plant a few potatoes, about a third of
an acre.

During the spare time I work out.
During the potato harvest I work out
digging potatoes, making about $2.75

a day. The money I have left I invest

in lambs.

 

 

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Some T fiat Mined the W axle Barker

Dear Uncle Frank:

I have never written before, but I
might just as well be introduced to
Mr. Waste Basket first as last. I have
been so busy weeding and wheel-hoe-
ing onions that I haven’t had time to
write or answer any contests. I’m so
tired when I get done at night that I
couldn’t write if I had to.

We’ve got eight acres of onions in

this year. I work for other people
quite a bit. I get $2.50 a day when I
do work.

I think I had better shut up, as Mr.
Waste Basket is calling me.—-Izetta
Sherwood, Shelbyville, Mich.

You are an ambitious girl. I appre-
ciate your writing me at a time when
you are so busy. Be careful and do
not over-do.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

One, two, three, four, five, six, sev-
en, eight, nine, ten and out.. This is
me, I guess. I have tried about ten
contests and haven’t seen a “speck”
of a prize yet. If I should happen to
win this time, the house won’t hold me.

Well, school is out once more, and
I have to help my mother clean house,
which I don’t like to do. I would rath-
er work your contests, Uncle Frank.
Honest, I would. Did you ever help
your mother clean house, Uncle Frank?
I’ll bet she-said, “Come on, Frankie,
get some water and get right up on
this chair and get to work.” Then
I’ll bet if I had been there, I would
have heard something. Don’t you bet?
, Oh, by the way, Uncle Frank, that
last letter of Harold’s that was in the
Michigan Farmer stirred the girls up
again. He got twelve letters from
them “flappers” (as he calls them),
which makes forty-two all together.

Well, I guess I had better close and
help my mother wash. Boo, boo!—
Your M. C. niece, Birdene Col‘es, Mont—

’ gomery, Mich‘., R. 1.

I am. sorry that you have seen no

prize “specks.” I would hate to make

it necessary for your to move into a

larger house. .

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

’Tis a ”pity and a crime” that Ev—
elyn Sherman and a few others didn’t
live fifty years ago when they would
not have to be shocked by such things
as bobbed hair and knickers. Bobbed
hair is a good deal more sanitary than

long hair that gets washed about twice

a year, and then takes forever to dry.
Girls don’t have their hair bobbed just
because they’re too lazy to comb it.
They have it done because it is more
comfortable, and comfort counts in
this world. As for girls being tom-
boys because they bob their hair and
wear knickers, I’m here to say they
are not. Knickers are a good deal
more comfortable than long, fiappy

\skirts, and if the boys had to wear

them they would certainly Wish that
all the dersses were in the bottom of
the ocean; and if they had to have
long hair, 0, My! Wouldn’t there be
some rumpus? I advise every girl
that hasn’t real nice hair to have it
bobbed, and if they haven’t had a pair
of knickers just get a pair and feel
how comfortable they are. .-

Hoping this escapes the waste paper

basket, ’I am, Fern Chamberlin, M. C.

Bobbed hair must be more cool this
Come again,

weather than long hair.
Fern.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

I received my flashlight some time

ago, and it surely did surprise me. I
wish to thank you for it. '

We have organized a sewing club in
our school,_ of which I am one'of the
The name is Hap-
The first year’s work has’ '

been completed, and on June 26 we, _

gave a program Iin the evening. We ,
~» had quite a large crowd ‘resenti‘n. as

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eighteen members.
py Hearts.

  

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some refreshments, and so you see‘we"
have some money in the't‘reasury.» ,

Thanking you again for the flash- *
light, I remain,.Your niece, Josephine.
Tucker, M. 'C., R. 5, Holland, Mich.)

It’s splendid that ‘,‘Happy Hearts”
has so many members. Let’s .hear
more of what you do. ‘

 

Dear Uncle Frank: .

How is the warm weather treating
you? I suppose you would rather have
us write with pen and ink, but my pen
has gone on strikez so I have to write
with a pencil. This is the first letter
I have written to you, and I. hope Mr.

‘W. P. Basket will refuse to eat it For

if he did eat it I shall have to write
another, and'l am not very good at
writing letters.

I have a little baby sister that will
be five months old the fifteenth of this

month. Her name is DaWn. I think it
is a very pretty name. .
Well, Uncle Frank, I will have to“

describe myself. I have brown hair
and blue eyes and fair complexion. I
am twelve years old and will be in the
eighth grade next year. I have a mile
to go to school. We bought a farm of
140 acres and moved here in Novem-
ber. Our house is a big white house.
We have a furnace and electric lights.
Papa has just finished screening our
cement porch.

I am raising a calf this year for a.
change. We have two little puppies
and one mother dog. We had five pup-
pies but we haven’t only two now. Wle
have eleven cows and three calves.
Papa don’t have to milk because we
have a milking machine. '

I agree with Azia Tillman about the
question, “Are boys rude to girls?”

Well, I guess I had better close, or
Uncle Frank will never print such a.
letter. So good-bye, from your niece,
Genevieve Day, R. 2, Ovid, Mich.

That screened porch must be fine
this weather. With all the conven-
iences farming would be real fun at
your house. I hope your calf will bring
you some change. '

THE WASTE PAPER BASKET.

 

By Maurice L. Hartung, Levering,
_ Michigan. ‘
I’m not acquainted with Mr. Waste
Paper Basket;
But I have a question and I’m going
to ask it.

How many letters do you suppose
Would fill you up so your mouth would
0 ose .

And another thing that’s puzzling me,
Is your daily dinner! Hully gee!

Think of chicken and cherry pie!
And you not able to wink an eye.

Because, you know, with a stomach so
crammed,

You won’t be
jam.

able to eat even the

And wfhatvwillyou have to be thankful
01‘

All 'you do is sit on the floor; ‘

And gobble each letter as it comes
through the door,

Then lick your chops and look for.
more.

THE WASTE BASKET. “

By Bethel H'allock, Hastings, Mich.
A tisket, a tasket, _
Thou hungry Waste Basket.
Will you ever get full?
I could not but ask it.

I’ve tried, oh, so hard,

The first prize to win;
And all I could land,

Was some candy and-fun.

 

‘But when from this contest,
The letters pour; in,

I’m thinking the Waste Basket:
Will be filled to the brim. >

Butthqu hung. West. Basket.

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fie Opinion: af'Some P52: IVzmrng Mmy Czar/er:

‘safety of the public must be consid-

HE national prohibition law, the
wteenth amendment to our con-

'stitutlonnls the most widely discussed,
' and. aunt frequently broken 'of any of
”Our national laws.

It governs parties
and every leading political man takes

_ .‘aistand for or against it. It was agi-
tated' for years before it became a

law. and some still question its con-
stitntionallty.

And what is this law, that it should
be the basis of so much discussion?
Briefly, it is a law forbidding any in-
dividual to imbibe intoxicating liquor,

‘manufac-tm‘e it for the above purpose,

or sell it for this purpose. Any per?
son who violates this law is tried and
punished according to the discretion

, of the court.

Now, many conscientiOus, well-
meaning citizens, and a great many
more who are merely selfish and have

. private gains in view, maintain that

it does not benefit the general public

’ and that it interferes‘ with the per«
’ sonal rights of the individual.

They
say that when such laws are made and
declared constitutional, that the safe-
guards to personal liberty, created by
our forefatherss, are undermined and
personal liberty is in danger of extinc—

, tion. This may be all rightin some

cases, but it does not apply here.

'For, when an individual can no long-
er control himself, he must be con-
trolled by outside influence for the
good of himself and, associates. Many
families would be penniless if it were
not for this law, for many men, who,
when they have the opportunity, im-
bibe strong liquors, and spend their
earnings, have families that suffer in
consequence. New, this is neither fair
to them nor their families. When the
temptation is removed, they will pro
vide for their families, and all persons
concerned will be happier.

This brings up another point, the
benefit that an- individual receives

‘ from imbibing intoxicating liquor. Un-

til recently, it was the universal opin-
ion that liquor was a drink that
strengthened and assisted the body. It
was thought a person could think bet—
ter, work harder, and resist disease
better, by imbibing liquor, in limited
quantities. Science has proven the
contrary. It weakens the mind, dulls
the conscience and weakens the body,

' physically. ‘-

So why, since it does harm instead
of good, should an individual, be per-
mitted to imbibe it? ,He spends his
money to the detriment of himself
and other individuals with whom he

is associated. Decidedly, it should not

be permitted, and the manufacture or
sale of intoxicants should be forbid-
den, for the benefit of all.

Then, there is another phase. The

 

ered and how safe would a person be
on the public highway, in this age of
motor vehicles, if liquor was sold?
W6 hear of enough accidents, when
the drivers are sober, how much great«
er this would be if the greater portion
were under the influence of liquor.
Most assuredly, it could not be if life
is considered Very'pre'cious. ‘

We hear many individuals say that
the highs? officials and the rich have

 

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fumé/ea' Canter;

' HE following question has
some words in it which are
correct, others are changed.
Those in heavy type are incor-
rect.‘ All of the words except
the first one are in wrong places
in the sentence.

See if you cannot get the ques-
tion worded correctly, and then

' give the answer, which you can
find on one of the first ten pages
of this issue.

In answering this contest give
both the corrected question, your
answer to it, and the number of
the page on which you found the
answers.

The question is:

What will a. singth soil do
there?

Write your name and address
in the upper left hand corner of

your paper. If you are a Merry
Circler put M. C. after your
name.

Send your letters to Uncle
Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,
Michigan, before August 7, as
the contest closes then.

 

 

 

liquors of difierent kinds, while the
public do not. This is greatly exagger-
ated, but even if it is not, the whole
public need not Suffer because of a
few. The general public is benefited
and that should be the object of all
laws. —Myrtle E. Walker M. C., R. 2,
Woodland, Mich.

THE PROHIBITION WINNERS.

 

Fountain Pens.
Myrtle Walker, Woodland, Mich.
Claire Stimson, Davison, Mich.
Flashlights.
Edna Federspiel, Sterling, Mich.
Helen Leonardson, Pittsford, Mich.
Birney Marble, R. 4, Allegan, Mich.
Candy.

Hope Draper, Montgomery, Mich.
Evelyn Hanson, Hermansville, Mich.

Ethel Morningstar, Rothbury, Mich.’

Frances Mastic, R. 1, Webberville,
Mich.
Beulah Iehl, Allegan, Mich.

 

 

 

CAUSES OF BAD BREATH.

 

I havebad breath. Don't think it is
from my teeth, but is awfully disagree-
able. What can I do?—B. M.

When we say that the breath is of-

fensive we usually mean that a bad‘

odor comes’from the mouth. Rarely
indeed is it from our breath unless in
serious illness, like chronic bronchitis
or abscess of the lungs. Bad odors
from the mouth may be due to ca-
tarrh, to indigestion, to diseased ton-
sils or decayed teeth. Masticate your
food thoroughly. avoid overeating,
keep the bowels regular, have diseas-

ed tonsils heated, and be sure that

firm in the gums and
M

 

 

 

 

it. The safeguard is in a yearly visit
to the dentist for inspection.

HOW TO FIGHT CATARRH

 

I have catarrh of the nose and
throat. Have used all kinds of washes
and sprays without effect, and am
afraid Mm next step will be consump-
tion.—

If ,catarrh of the nose and throat
were a sure step to consumption, there
would be a host of citizens on the way.
To cure catarrh you must fortify the
body at every point. Cultivate resist-
ance to “colds” by living much in the
open air and by cold bathing. Eat
nourishing food, but observe dietetic
rules and carefully avoid overeating as
well as ‘overdressing. Sleep with
wide open windows.

\.

HRIST tried to teach His pupils
how to think. Now, thinking is
never popular. Very few people
do very much of it. In fact, a thinker
is often regarded as adangerous man.
He sees into the purposelessness of

so many things that he becomes in-

convenient to have around. An Eng-
lishman says, “We would rather face
physical discomfort and stress than
the mental a'nd spiritual stress that
hard ”thinking involves." And an
American has said that millions are
willing to give their lives for their
country, but very few are willing to
think for it. Doctor Johnson said that
very few people get a new idea after
they are forty. Most of our daily rou-

tine is done by force of habit and is‘

performed mechanically. But Christ
undertook to get his audience to think,
and especially He sought to arouse
the thinking faculty in His own twelve
private pupils. He did not succeed
fully, for when He had risen from the
dead they still thought that He was
~ about to restore
the kingdom, in
an earthly sense.
(Acts 1.6).
Probably this is
the greatest weak-
ness in the pul-
pit, the Sunday
school, the day
school. and the
newspaper. Most
of our truth is presented in predigest-
ed, chocolate—covered form. We strive
to introduce it into the listener so
lightly and easily that it won’t hurt
him. The lesson must not be made
too hard, else the pupil will never
come again. If the truth can be pass-
ed to the pupil in disguise, so much
the better. The result is, a large
amount of mob—minded thinking and
acting. We think in groups and mass-
es. We think as is the fashion to
think, and as we are told to think.
Against this insidious tendency, Christ
set Himself with all His power. The
most tender Man who ever lived, He
knew that sentiment alone will not
travel far. An impulsive sentimental
man exclaims, “I will follow thee
whithersoever thou goest,” but Christ
brings him down to earth by remind-
ing him that even birds and foxes are
better provided with lodgings than He
is. In other words, to be a follower of
His means business; it is not easy,
and the way is not scented with rose
leaves. Better think twice before you
start.

 

NE (is; a woman of the same type

exclaimed, “Blessed is the womb
that bear Thee, and the breasts that
Thou hast sucked.” But she was fair-
ly though kindly checked in her flow
of complimentary remarks, by being
told that the really blessed people are
those who do the will of God.-

Now the traditional way of" an
preaching religious truth for centuries
has not been thus. It has been im-
parted by the pouring in process. The
'preacher poured it into his congrega-
tion, the teacher into his class, the
evangelist into his converts. And this
of necessity, for you simply cannot
make some people think. They must
get their spiritual life passively or not
at all. Moreover, not all teachers can
teach as Christ taught, and as other
great teachers have taught. It cquires
brains, real brains, to do it. When our
Lord finished with an address his dis-
ciples were bristling with interroga-
tion points.

It is worth considering that the pn-
pils of the famous Twelve were of
different types. They did not mix
very well, some of them. Yet they all
stayed by and gave a good account of
themselves except one. There was
Matthew, who had been a tax collector
in the employ of the Romans.’ He
would not be any too intimate with

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Our Weekly Sermon+By N A. Mchze

   

Simon the Zealot, [$th belonged to a ‘
secret party whOse members promised ‘
to fight any time when called, ford}
pelling the Romans from Palestine.
There were the three leaders, Jamea,
John/and Peter, of whom the rest were
at times jealous. And these three ex-_
pected to receive the plums that
Christ would pass around when His '
kingdom was organized. The tWr
strongest, James and John, were nick-' '
named Sons of Thunder because of
their fiery temperament. It was a. real
piece of teaching that Christ confront-
ed, and He was equal to it. When it
was all over, He could say, “Ye are
they which have continued with me in
my trials,” and it could be said of
Him that, “Having loved His own that
were in the world, He loved them unto
the.end.” The scholars stayed through
because the Teacher stayed.

HE closest approximation we have

, of this intimate relationship of
Christ and His disciples is that of the
Sunday School teacher and his class.
I mean, the nearest approximation in
the church. There the teacher has an
opportunity toget near to the hearts
of his class, in many ways. And these
ways are being utilized more and
more. For instance, if the class is a.
class of boys, there are the hikes in
spring and summer, with a camp fire'
and a supper cooked, before the re-
turn journey. That can be done on
almost any day and takes but a few
hours. But it takes the teacher right
into the hearts of his class. In fact,
we are learning to get into the lives
of our boys and girls more and more
by the natural methods. T 058 sum—
mer camps for young people, when
properly supervised, are great institu-
tions. You cannot always appeal to a
youth by talking to him about Moses
or Joshua, but you can usually get at
him through his love of swimming or
running, 01‘ eating, or birds, or some-
thing like that.

And that was Christ’s method. He
talked about religion in terms of the
beautiful out-of—doors. He referred to
ravens and sparrows and the sky, and
the people coming and going.

It is more than likely that Christ
used to get discouraged over the dull-
ness of His follower. It seemed an
uphill process to get a new idea. into
them. For one thing, like many peo
ple now, they did not want any new
ideas. And when, after long associa-
tion and many talks on the deep mean-
ings of life, He would suddenly over-
hear the disciples arguing over who
was the biggest man among them, it
did look mightily discouraging. They
seemed hopeless. But wait. He had
made more of: an impression on them
than appeared. Those same slow-
learning fellows go out to live the life
He taught them, to teach it, and most
of them to die in its defense. His
teaching was making headway all the
time, though often there was slight
evidence of it. Sunday School teach-
ers have very discouraging times. Pet)?“
ple who go to church once on Sunday
and criticize the preacher’s grammar
and never do a stroke of work for the
church, do not know how much hard
work is really being done. Boys wrig<
gle and whisper, girls giggle, and neiths

or group seems to be thirsting for re- ’1

ligious knowledge. They are not bow‘
ed with grief if the teacher has to be
away for a Sunday or two. But more
progress is being made all the time
than the teacher gets credit for. You
will hear a. young woman say that she .
owes everything to a certain woman
or man, who taught her class in the
church schbol for several weeks. It
is hard work, but rewarding. "

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR?
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SUBJECT: —The First Disci 1 05,,
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Cockerels and Pul‘lets

Leghoms, Rocks. Beds. Wyandottes. Orpingtons. An-
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Pure Breed.

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STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION. Kalamazoo, Mich.
Member InternationaI Baby Chick Association
Member Michigan State Farm Bureau

 

 

' Barred Rocks. White
June-July andlu usi Prices Rock, WM... Wm-
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wiLL STUDY FARM FLOGKS.

ONE successful commercial poultry
breeder, - having a" flock of 7flv.6
hundred or more laying hens, and one
or more general farmers who are in-
terested in poultry raising, who‘ have.
one hundred or more layers, are to be
visited each day of the 1924 Michigan
Poultry Tour, which is to extend
through three weeks and Will visit sev-
enteen counties, according to the an-
nouncement by Prof. E. C. Foreman,
head of the Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege poultry husbandry department.

The 1924 tour will be the most
lengthy and extensive ever scheduled
for Michigan farmers, as previous
tours have extended Only three or four
The tour will begin on August
4—5 in Newaygo county, and will end
on August 23 in Sanilac county. The
complete itineary .is to be as follows:
August 4-5, Newaygocou’nty; August
6. Oceana; August 7, Muskegon; Aug-
ust 8-9, Ottawa; August 11, Kent; Aug—
ust 12, Allegan; August 13, Barry;
August 14, Van Buren; August 15, Ber-
rienf August 16, Kalamazoo; August
18, Jackson; August 19, Washtenaw
and Lenawee; August 20, Wayne;
August 21, Macomb; August 22, St.
Clair; August 23, Sanilac.

Plans for the tour include eight to
ten stops a day, at farms, each of
which will offer opportunity for the
inspection of different types of poul-
try houses. The extreme summer con-
ditions of July andAugust create one
of the difficult problems encountered
in the construction of poultry houses,
and the farms visited on the tour are
expected to aid in determining-the
best practices.

The tour will be in charge of J. A.
Hannah, M. A. C. extension specialist
in poultry husbandry. Dr. H. J. Staf-
seth, of the M. A. C. bacteriology de~
partment, will also be present, and
will conduct a disease clinic at prac-
tically every stop. Both Dr. Stafseth
and Mr. Hannah will give talks at the
noon stops of the tour. The owners
of the farms which will be visited will
give short talks on their methods of
breeding and management.

Prof. E. C. Foreman, head of the
M. A. C. poultry husbandry depart-
ment, will spend a few days with the
tour. Local agricultural agents will
be in charge of the arrangements for
the visit in their counties. Efforts are
being made to vary the program some-
what in each county, so as to present
different events to those who take
part in the entire three weeks’ trip.

Inquiries are being received from a
number of states outside of Michigan,
besides many from Michigan farmers.
On a. one-day tour of Ottawa county
two years ago, 150 cars with about 450
people, took part, and this number is
expected to be passed in the 1924 tour.
——Benj. V. Halstead.

GOSLINGS HAVE BRAIN CONGES-
TION.

 

My goslings are perfectly quiet and
do well for about two weeks, then
start and run in circles, then turn and
obackwards till they die. Do you
think that hatching in the incubator
has anything to do With their ail-
ments ?—~M. E. K. ,
Goslings sometimes have congestion
of the brain, caused by intestinal
worms or acute indigestion. . If the
droppings show the presence of worms
some breeders advise giving each gos-
ling a half teaspoonful of turpentine.
This is done with a. medicine dropper
which places the turpentine deep in
the bird’s throat. Two teaspoonfuls
of eastor oil for each gosling may be

 

    

helpful in cases of indigestion Bro-_
‘vide the goelinss with plenty of shade

as exposure to hot sun may result in
losses.

DUOKLINGS ARE SICK.

Have been raising ducks and eese
in the incubator, and after the ucks
are about one month old their eyes
stick together, as though they were
blind—M. K.

The eyes of dugklings sometimes be-
come irritated through being frequent-
lysmeared» with..,.dirty Water or sloppy
feeds. Provide plenty of fresh drink-
ing water in dishes deep enough for
them to wash out their nostrils and
eyes when they are drinking An in-
flamed condition of the eyes may be
improved by washing in lukewarm wa-
ter, followed by bathing with boric
acid solution or witch hazel.

 

VlTAMl-N ES GROW BROILERS

 

LLEN G. CUMMINGS, of Calhoun

county has his stakes set at a.
dollar each for Barred Rock broilers
hatched March 23. On May 3,. six
weeks after hatching, he sold fifty
cockerels at forty cents a pound, which
brought $39.40.
sold twenty-five in Battle Creek, which
at thirty-five cents a pound brought
$22.05.

The first feed the chicks get is mix-
ed in the proportion of two handfuls of
bran and two handfuls of rolled oats
mixed with one raw egg. The eggs
are beaten as this keeps them from
being so sticky.’ According to Cum-
mings, this mixture contains growth
vitamines which makes the chicks
PUSH in capital letters.

The chicks get this ration for about
two weeks and are then gradually
worked onto a mash consisting of 20.
pounds of growing mash, 100 pounds
each of ground wheat, ground corn
and ground oats.“ To each 500 pounds
of this, fifty pounds of charcoal is
mixed in, the batch is put into the
self-feeder and “Welcome” written on,
the mat. In addition, they get whole
wheat both morning and evening, and
broken ear corn is by them all the
while. Water, shade, and a pile if
marl which furnishes an abundance it”
shells completes the feeding of these
rapidly growing cockerels whose legal
tender is a little less than one
dollar.—M.

ALFALFA REDUCES EGG COSTS.

 

CCORDING to accurate records,

out alfalfa reduced the cost (1
eggs laid by the Barred Rock flock of
Allen G. Cummings, of Calhoun ocun-
ty. Cummings states that his flock of
107 'hens consumed 200 pounds of cut
alfalfa per month last winter] This
was the third crop of alfalfa hay and
was cut into quarter-inch lengths with
a. hand-cutter.——I. J. M.

PlPES AIR TO THE HENS.

 

LLEN CUMMINGS) of Calhoun

county, successfully ventilated a
hen house that had hitherto been
damp and roupy, by putting in four-
inch eave spout pipe. There are two
pipes in a.12x30 hen house. They
extend eighteen inches above the roof.
come right down in front of the drop-
pings boards, and extend to within
eight’inches of the floor.

When you have many broilers to
market it pays to line up your market
a few weeks in advance, especially if
you depend on a local dealer with a
limited demand for such stock. It is
a great waste of time and money to

finish broilers for market and then '
find that your dealers is; fully "sup,
plied

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PART of the correct equipment of

ahby beet plant is the calf creep.
There are many ways 01’ providing it.
The object is to provide a place large
enough for the suckling calves to
creep through to a feed bunk or self-
teeder of 01111109 grains, and small
enough to keep the older cattle out.
. By starting the calves early on
grain, while still running with their
mothers, 2. higher finish and greater

‘w’eight at an early age may be secur~

ed; and that iarwhat is needed to "com-

- mand the high price on the market.

it is the opportunity to do this that

gives the grower of his own feeder.
"calves the advantage over the man

who purchases his feeders on the op-
en mar’ket. Calves that are shipped

, directly from their mothers on west-

ern grazing grounds must suffer a se-
vere shrink, and go through a semi-
starvation period while learning the
taste of grain and becoming accus-

tomed to it. While home-grown calves

that have had access to a well sup-
plied feed brink while still nursing,
wili'pass through the weaning period

,with little worry and no shr.ink

Calf creeps in the winter feeding
sheds are quite common in Michigan,
but few of our gi-azers at the present
time provide additional feed for the
calves while running with their moth.-
ers on grass. Such a feeder and shade
stand in one of the large pastures on
the C. K. Warren farms at Three Oaks.
Underneath the broad shade, which is
simply a sloping board roof built over
an open framework, is a feed bunk,
long and low down. This is kept well
supplied at the proper times with meal
that the baby calves like. Around the
outside and enclosing three or four
times as much space as the shade it-
self is a woven Wire fence with an op‘

~. ening at one corner where the posts

are set diagonally, and close enough
together to keep out the mothers, but
leaving room for the, youngsters to
pass easily. Some fifty Hereford cows
and their baby calves had the run of
this pasture—Pope.

 

RAISING FLIES.

 

HE fly must be a universal favor-
ite. They are raised on every
farm. More people raise flies than any
other one kind of live things. If we
could get up a fly raising contest,
what an easy time we might have. It
is such an easy task to raise them. '”
. First, we would want to leave all
the flyswatters alone, especially early
in the season, and never kill any of
the big. green blow flies that are the
earliest flies to appear. Every pair
of these big files is capable of produc—
ing several millions of young flies dur-
ing the season. They are a sort of
Adam and Eve to the fly race, so they
should be carefully" protected if we
want to raise lots of flies.
Next. the old hens that have used

: up their vitality and given up life in

the spring months, and the little pigs
that the old sow lies on, and the new-

.born lambs that give up the ghost,

should he left lay around in the back
yard ‘wherever it is easiest; just give
them a. sling out the stable doors.
Their floating. decaying, putrifying
carcasses node idea. food for the larva

"of the fly. If they are buried deep or

"burned it will have a serious effect

1110: the nunber at files you can raise.

,‘lfh satin-cl breeding ground for
die: is just any old kind of common

_ filth. It you would be the champion
I? “or lot it accumulate.
den or- gar! the out-door toilets, or

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refuse where it can heat and mold
and decay. Leave the winter’s ac-
cumulation of waste in the barnyards
where it can rot and soak and provide
the farmstead with a liberal stench.
These places make ideal breeding and
feeding grounds for files, and it is sur-
prising how rapidly they grow and
how swiftly they multiply under such
conditions.

If the lady of the house will 'just
throw the potato parings and table
scraps out the back door instead of
feeding them to the pigs or chickens,
it will help greatly in coaxing the flies
to the house. They are very fond of
banana peelings or decaying fruits, or
meats or vegetables, of any kind.

Screens on doors and windows, fly
traps and swatters, darkened stables,
blankets, or sprays for the cows, nets
for the horses, and cleanliness are all
taboo around the fly ranch.

Flies are wonderful germ distribut-
ors; they help in giving the horses
exercise, they keep the cows from giv-
ing so much milk, they give the hog
an excuse to wallow. If allowed free
range of the sleeping rooms, they will
also keep the 'farmer from over-sleep—
ing on Sunday morning.

Some people do not care for flies, in
which case it would not be advisable
for them to follow the above instruc-
tions.—-—A Bald Head.

MAKES FOR BETTER FARMING.

 

HE annual report of the Macomb
County Cow Testing Association,

No. 2, shows that all members are‘

either owning or using pure-bred sires.
Three high-class sires were purchased
during the year and are being used in
neighborhmd rings. The standard
kept in mind in the purchase of these
sires was not just any pure-bred bulls
but pure-bred sires with excellent
backing in type and production. Cow
testing association records have indi-
cated to the Macomb members that
pure—bred blood is best and they are
no longer satisfied with just “good
enough grade cows.”

The cow testing association mem-
bers are growing more alfalfa and
sweet clover. In May, 1923, when this
association began operations, fifty
acres of alfalfa were grown on twen-
ty~nine farms.
are reported seeded to alfalfa on these
twenty-nine farms. In May, 1923, not
one acre of sweet clover. was being
grown. In May, 1924, 155 acres are
reported seeded to sweet clover.

BOOSTS SALE RETURN..

 

HE association year in the Kent-i
Alto Cow Testing Association has

been completed. Several sales occur-

red during the association year and:

each sale proved- that cow testing rec-

ords helped realize a better sale price:
Outside buyers were attracted to this"
A carioad of Jerseys was.
bought for a northern Michigan county'

association.

and a number of Jersey heifers and

cows were sold to a Kansas buyer.:1

Cow testing association records were
sent out with some of the reactors

who were tuberculin tested during the

county-wide test. These cows received
higher appraisal than cows without
records.

The Ohio State Grange goes on rec-z
0rd as opposing the ratification of the

federal child labor amendment to the
constitution.

 

Farmers are becoming interested in
the hay grades being promulgated by
the United States Department of Ag-
ricu'lture An inspection service is to
1» established in conjunction with the
standardization program.

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In May, 1924, 210 acres

5 lbs. 75c and

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a big knee like this, but your horse
may have a bunch or bruise on his
ankle, hock, stifle, knee or throat.

ABSORBINE

TPADE MARK REG. U. S PAY. OFF.

will clean it off without laying up

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and Book 8eree. ABSO RBINE. 111.. the anti-
septic iinimcnt Cor mankind. reduces Painful Swelling;
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Pain and inflammation. Price 81. 25 I bottle It druuim or
(lettered. liberal trial bottle pesto-Id for 10¢.

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BREWERS DIRECTORY

Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us
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An inferior ani-
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breeders and you 1
will receive divi—
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WILDWOOD FARMS

ORION. MICHIGAN
W.E.SCRIPPS .Pnop. SIDNEY SMITH. Supt.

 

 

 

 

Choice Bull Cal! 10 mo. old.
out of a good A. R. 0. cow.
WILLIAMS. North Adams. Mich.

8115‘ Guernseys

 

sale. Reg. yearling heifers, bu‘ll
GUGTHSGYS calves. May Rose breeding. prices
very Mb! 1. W. V. Gui-dick. ewmlnmfl’on. Mich.

 

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A Great Opportunity

We on olerimz a young Holstein bull ready for ser-
vice by a 32. 63- lb. son of Matador 88031: Walker a
brother!» 130811“ Placer-18 Prospect. world‘s nascent
gov. Dam of calf by a 35.73411. 80111.1 King Sells

Hillcrest Farm, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Address gives to F. 3.137. 2525 Clybourn Ava.

 

 

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, communal Winner.
. save money.

bulls.

nu. assess *1
usurious
‘n’r museums

It Disinfects and It Paints

Here’ s the recipe for bright.
clean, healthful, sanitary living-
quarters for your live stock. Get a

  

Disinfecting Whitewash that comes
in powder form. Mix it with water _
and apply it with a spray pump. It ‘
disinfects and it paints in one easy,
simple operation.

Carbola is better than ordinary
whitewash in every way. It re-
quires no slaking or straining. It
will not clog a sprayer. It won't
blister, flake or peel off.

Flows Evenly —— Dries White

Put Carbola on with a hunk. if
you prefer. It flows evenly and
smoothly from a paint brush. It
quickly dries a clear. even white.
And, because Carbola is a powerful
disinfectant as well as a paint, it
will help to keep your live stock
free from lice, mites and contagious
diseases.

It’s an Excellent Louse Powder

Use the dry Carbola powder as a
louse powder on cattle, horses and
poultry. Dust it on garden plants
to help get rid of bugs, worms, flies
and other destructive parasites.

Your hardware, feed, seed, poultry sup-
ply or drug dealer has Carbola or can get
it. If not, order direct. Money back, if
you’ re not satisfied.

10c post-go 10153. 1.25 and 15c postage

20 lbs. $2. 50 delivered 50 I 3. $5.00 delivered

200 lbs. $18.00 delivered

- (A pound of Carbola makes enough disinfecting whitewash

to cove1 100 squaie feet)

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326 Ely Ave. ., Long Island City, N. Y.

Hereford Steers

60 wt. around 850 lbs: 74 wt around 775 lbs.
88 wt. around (350 1115.: 44 wt. around (£00 lbs.
46 wt. around 550 lbs; 50 wt. around 500 lbs.
Dee-p reds. good grass flesh. Some bunvhes just
lair flesh account of short pasture. Real quality
Herefords are usually market toppers when finished.
Will sell your choice. one car load or all. (i111)
number and weight preferred. VAN B. BALDWIN.
Eldon, Wapello 00., lows.
15 Cows, 4 bulls from R. o! M. (.‘ows. Chance to
select from herd of 70. Some fresh, others bred
for fall treshening. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersville. Mich.

 

- cattle. young balls, for
RegIStered Jersey sale. Tubercuiin tested
J. L. CARTER. Lake Odessa. Mich.

 

Fresh Cows. Heifers. Calves
Jerseys For Sale and 1 Bull 18 Months om.

LeROY KUNEY. Adrian. Mich.

FOR SALE

A few choice young Slam-thorn bulls. Write for de—
livered prices. H. B. PETERS It SON. Ellis. Mich.

 

 

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’GRAIN QUOTATIONS
Wednesday, July 30

Wheat. .
Detroit—No. 1 red $1.36; No. 2 red
$1.35; No. 3 red $1.32; No. 2 white
$1.37; No. 2 mixed $1.36.
ChicagoW—Sept. $1. 31%@1. 317/3; De-

', cember 91. 341,42 031’. 34%; May $1. 39.

Toledo—Gas 21. 34@1.
Detroit—No. 3,m’$1n.19; No.4 yellow
$1.14.

Chicago. —Sept., $1. 08% , December

977/3@98c; May 99%@991/,c.
Oats.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 630; No.

, ,61c.
Chicago—Sept, 48%@49c;
Max:545“.

ye.
Detroit—Cash N0. 2', 95.
Chicago. —September, 96%c; Decem-

Decem-

ber 995/3c.
Toledo. ——94c.
Barley.
Barley, malting 90c; feeding 85c.
Beans.

Detroit. ——Immediate and prompt
shipment $5. 00@5 05 per cwt.
Chicago—Navy $5; red kidneys $8.
New York—Choice pea at $5.50
red kidneys $9.
‘ Seeds.
Detroit—Prime red clover cash at
$12; alsike $10.80; timothy $3.75. 1
_ Hay
Strong—No. 1 timothy $23.50@24;
standard and light mixed $22.50@23;
No. 2 timothy $21@22; No. 1 clover at
$19@20; No. 1 clover mixed $20@21;
wheat and oat straw $11.50@12; rye
straw $13@14.

Feeds.

Bran $34; standard middlings $35;
fine do $40; cracked corn $55; coarse
cornmeal $54; chop at $47 per ton in
100—lb. sacks.

Fruits.

Red raspberries, fancy, $2.25 per 24-
pint case; do black $1.50; huckle-
berries $3.00@3.50 per 16-qt case;
cherries, black, sweet $1.50@1.75 per
16-qt case; black berries $2.00@2.25
per 16—qt. case.

WHEAT

Wheat prices scoreda further ad-
vance last week, reaching a new high
point for the year. Estimates as to
the amount of wheat Canada will pro-
duce range from 220 to 300 million
bushels against ‘474 million bushels
last year. Private estimates upon the
crop in the eight leading winter wheat
states show a decided gain over a
month ago and it will not be surpris-
ing if the August forecast shows about
as much wheat in the United States
as was harvested last year. Primary
receipts of new wheat are increasing
right along but milling demand has
absorbed them without great weak-
ness in the cash market although
there has been some shading of
premiums. Foreign interests have not
been buying as freely as expected in
view of the fact that our prices are
below Winnipeg. The European har~
vest is at hand and it is only natural
that home grown wheat would be
drawn upon more extensively for a.
while, especially with imported wheat
prices on a high level. The course of
prices in the next few weeks will be
dominated by crop news but the
supply and demand situation is ex-
tremely strong and seems to be get-

ting stronger.
CORN

Receipts of corn increased on the
extreme advance in prices and de-
mand is less brisk so that cash corn
has lost some ground. New crop pros-
ects have improved to some extent,
ut more forcing weather is needed
as growth remains far behind hand.
0 quote the last government crop
report, a large proportion can only
mature grain “in the event of frosts
holding off unusually late in the fall. ”
t is probable that corn prices Will lag
until new forces, such as unfavorable
weather, give an incentive for a fresh

upswing
OATS

The oats market is in much the

,, same position as corn. A big new crop
“is being harvested and scarcity of old
. ‘ crop oats has about spent itself as a
market factor

As the heavy move-
ment of new oats to primary markets
in the next two

grains. The general outlook is strong,

, however, as scarcity of corn will turn

demand to cats. Canada: s oats crop

’ is in verse shape than its wheat.

, with the strength in grains.

 
 

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Rye has not kept pace with the ad-
vance in wheat as the large visible

supply carried over from the 1923 crop

is still a market factor and rye does
not have the breadth of speculative
support that wheat has attracted.
Foreign demand for rye promises to
be much better than in the past year
because of poor crops in Germany
and Poland. Furthermore, Russia has
a smaller crop than last year.;

- . BEANS .

Bean prices are the hipghest . in
several months with C. H. Whites
at $5.15 to $5. 20F O. B. PMichigan
shipping points. Light deliveries from
farms due to the busy season are
given as the explanation of the
strength. Demand is said to be much
more narrow than at this time a. year

*’ ago. It is generally believed that there

are a fairly large number of beans still
in Michigan, current estimates being
from 1200 to 1500 cars.

SEEDS

Clover‘and timothy seed prices ad-
vanced last week, partly in sympathy
Weather
conditions are favorably for starting

the clover seed crop.

FEEDS

Wheat feed markets are slightly
easier and demand is light. Offerings
from mills are small. Linseed meal
is firm as production is limited. De-

mand for linseed meal is narrow but;

cotton seed meal has
Corn feeds are

inquiry for
broadened slightly.

quiet but firm.
HAY

Hay markets are” quiet. The move-
ment of new hay -is increasing and
demand is limited. Best grades of
timothy are firm and alfalfa shows a
strong tone under broader southern
demand. Hay harvest is late in most
sections and an excess of rain is
damaging quality. Some shipments of
new hay are arriving out of condition.

POULTRY AND. EGGS

With smaller receipts last week and
more active buying egg prices ad-
vanced. Quality eggs were searce.
Although receipts are falling off, they
are still large for this time of year
making dealers reluctant to anticipate
future needs. Prices on poultry were
lower last week with hens and
chickens declining most. Chickens
are arriving in increasing numbers
and prices for them probably will

Broilers, 28 @360,

suffer further less.

demand. High retail cos s are car‘- "
tailing consumption further..
Chicago—Eggs: Extra, 33@350;

' miscellaneous, 24@25c; dirtiesé23ygc;

checks, 231,413; fresh firsts, 26
ordinary firsts, 241,4@25c. Live poul-
try: Hens, 16@21c; broilers, 28"@320;
roosters, 14c; ducks, 16@18c; geese,
12@18c; turkeys, 20c.

Detroit—a—Eggs: Fresh candied and
graded, 26%@28%c. Live poultry:
heavy hens, 23@
24c; light hens, 18c; roosters, 15c;
geese 1 c ducks, 17@210._

._ Burma

Butter. _ prices ‘broks further last
week._
demand, and although receiptsshowed

some decrease under a week ago, they.

are still far ahead of the same period
a year ago. Holdings of storage butter
at the four large markets have been
more than 6 million pounds larger
thus far in July than in the same
period in June, normally _the month
of heaviest storing. Foreign butter is
much too high compared with our
prices to interest domestic buyers.
No imports are expected during the
immediate future. Prices on 92- score
creamery: Chicago, 360; New York,
38c; Boston, 390; Philadelphia, 39c.
On 90 score centralized: Chicago, 36c;
New York, 37%c; Boston, 38c. In
Detroit butter sells for 34%@36%c.

POTATOES

Potatoshipments in the last few
days have fallen away from the record
pace maintained in the previous two
weeks. Consuming markets have been
struggling with heavy arrivals and
prices are lower than a .week' ago,

although symptoms of returning
strength are apparent. The southern
Season is passing. The crop in

northern states is late but is making
good progress.

WOOL

While Boston reports that the
volume of wool changing hands was
slightly smaller than in the previous
week, prices are firm at the recent ad-
vance with small further gains in
spots. Light manufacture for several
months is clearing up the accumula-
tion of goods, while small imports and
moderate reexports have reduced the
supply of wool in this country. Prices
are below the world level, duty con-
sidered, and large amounts must be
imported while the next clip is being

 

 

I Live Stock ’Market ServiceJ

Wednesday, July 30

DETROIT

Cattle.

Receipts 140. Market very dull.
Many still unsold.
Good to choice yearlings.$ 8. 858@ 9.25

Best heavy steers ....... @ 9.00

Handyweight butchers .. 650@ 7.25
Mixed steers and heifers 6.00@ 6.75
Handy light butchers. . . 5 50@ 6.25
Light butchers .......... 5 00@ 5 25
Best cows .............. 5 0061' 5 50
Butcher cows ........... 3 75@ 4 25
Cutters .................. 3 00@ 3 25
Canners ................ 2 506B 2 75
Choice bulls ............ 500@ 525
Bologna bulls .......... 4.50:5) 5.25
Stock bulls ............. 3.50@ 4.50 ’
Feeders ................ 550C‘ 6.50
Stockers ............. 5.0 C L0
Milkers .................. $45. 00@85. 00

Veal Calves.

Receipts 711. Market steady.
Best ................... $11.00@11.50
Others 4.00@10.50

Sheep and Lambs.

.................

lReceipts 541. Market steady and
s ow

Best spring lambs ....... $13. 25@13. 50
Fair .................... 11. 00@12. 00
Light to common ..... .. 7. 00@ 8. 00
Fair to good sheep . . . . 5.00 6.50

Culls and common .. . 1.50 - 4.00
’ Hogs.

Receipts 1032. Market 10c lower on
mixed, 150 higher on yorkers.
Mixed and heavy yorkers. $11. 25@11. 50

gttoughs ..... ...... 500@550
s ..... ~.' .......... . ,
Pigeon corneal

.. two. cars -,

no .
one-onus. QM

CHICAGO

Hogs.

Receipts, 16,000. Market slow, most-
ly 25@500 lower on better grades.
Slaughter pigs largely 250 off, others
dull. Big packers bidding steady with
Saturday, or $8.00@8.50 on common.
Mixed kinds $11.00, for choice 200 to
220-lb. average. Bulk good and choice
160 to 240-lb. weight $10.50@10.85.
Better 260 to 325-1b. averages, $10.15@
10.30. Packing sows, $8.50@8.75. Good
307§trong weight slaughter pig $9.50@

Cattle.

Receipts, 11,000. Market better
grades grain fed description fully,
steady. Stots strong. Trade open,
slow and uneven. Shipping demand
is fairly good, especially for strong
weight steers. Tops are $11.50; some
held higher. Long yearlings $11.40.
Cake fed Texas $9.00@10.40. Grasser
cows dull. Vealers $5.50@10.00 most-
ly. Few up to $10.50 to outsiders. ‘

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 14,000. Market active.
Early sales fat lambs steady to strong.
Most natives $13. 00@13. 25.
bulk spring lambs $13. 50@13. 75.
held at around $14. 00. Culls mostly
$9. 00@9. 25. Sheep steady. Odd lots
fat ewes $5.50@5.60. Feeding lambs
steady to strong. _ ’

BUFFALO

Catfish—Receipts, three cars; steady.
Hogs—Receipts, 10 cars; . her,
heavy, $11. 35@11. 50; gorkers, $1f50@
, 160; pigs, $10325.t

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Supplies were:
large and hot weather (is ressed the «'

Supplies were in excess of"

Early ,

heep—Recei ts. ,
14 , ~

grown. Our markets must come up

unless foreign prices decline. British

trade sentiment is that settlement of;
nthe reparations question- and a loan to -
Germany\wili broaden” the demand for .
.wooi materially. \

The firmness in prices at the seaa
board has caused a sharp advance in
the west. Wools selling at 38 cents

a short time ago have advanced to 42 -

to 44 cents.

DETROIT cmr MARKET

The market was well supplied with" J ’

£110 oduce and the large number of s
yers out made it fairly active. The
supply of red raspberries was liberal
and the movement fair at $7. 50@8. 00
a case. Black ones were taken readily
at $4.50 (05.00 a. case. The small offer~
ing of verbearing strawberries sold
quickly, but huckleberries were in
light demand. Late cherries had ready
sale at $3.75@4.00 per case.
mand for tomatoes Was strong with
$4. 00 a basket being paid for topnotch
Prices were. asparagus, No.1 ,$1. 75
doz. bchs; No. 2, $1. 25@1. 50 doz. bchs;
beans, $1. 00@1. 50 bu; beets, 40@50c
doz bchs; Kalamazoo celery, No.1,
40@60c doz; No. 2, 250 doz; Jumbo,
850@$1.00 doz; local celery, No. 1, 75¢
doz; No. 2, 500 doz; cagliflower, No.
1, $2. 50@3. 00 bu; No. $1. 50@2. 00
bu; cabbage greens, 50c 2bu cabbage,
50@65c bu; currants, $2. 50@3. 50 24-qt
case; cherries, sour, $3. 75@4. 00 24- -qt
case; sweet, $5. 00@6. 00 case; carrots,
40@500 doz bchs; gooseberries, $3 50
@400 24—qt. case; kohl-rab-i, 50c doz.

bchs; leaf lettuce, 40@5 bu; head
lettuce, 75c@1. 25 bu; mus rd, 50@600

bu; green onions, 40@600 doz. bchs;
parsley, 35@50c doz. bchs; potatoes,
$1. 40@1. 50 bu; peas, fancy, $2. 50@4 00
bu; No. 1, $12 @175 bu; round rad
ishes, 50@750 doz. bchs; long radishe
600@$1. 00 doz. bchs; red raspberries,
fancy, $8.50 24- qt crate; No. 1, $7. 50@

8.00 case; black raspberries, fancy,
$5.50 24-qt crate, No. 1, $4.50@5. 00
crate; rhubarb, 35@40c doz. bchs;

sweet peppers, $4. 00@5. 00 bu; hot pep-
pers, $6. 00@9 0.0 bu;; huckleberries
$4.50@5. 00 case; dill, 40@50c doz.
bchs; eggs, wholesale, 350 doz; retail,
40@45c doz; old hens, wholesale, 25c

lb; retail, 26@280 lb; broilers, retail‘

35@40c lb; ducks, retail, 30@3201b;:

GRAND RAPIDS

Canning week tended to check lower
price tendencies on a number of fruits
and vegetables early this week. As
a result prices took the following
range. Raspberries, red, $3, 50@4 a
16-qt case; black, $1 .75@2 a case;
currants, $1. 35@1. 50 case; gooseber-
ries, $1. 75@2 case; huckleberries $,3@
4 case; dewberries, $2. 50@2. 75 case;
wax beans, 50c@$1. 50 bu; peas, $1.50
@2. 25 bu; spinach, 75c@$1. 00 bu;
cauliflower, 750@$,1. 50 flat; potatoes,
$1@1.52 bu; tomatoes, $125 a. 7-lb.
basket; head lettuce, $1@1.50 bu;
celery, 20@50c doz; corn, 65c doz
ears; cucumbers, $1@1.25 doz; pork,
1214c lb, beef, lamb, mutton, steady;
poultry, oversupplied; market weak;
fowls,13@19c lb; broilers, 14@25c lb;
eggs, higher; current receipts, 25@26c
g§z@390 extras, 27@28c doz; butter fat,

THE EGG LAYING. CONTEST.

 

T HE production during the week
ending July 24 showed a substan-
tial increase over the previous week.
The total for the week being 3,842,
as compared with 3,639, the cor-
responding week last year.

The contest managers are using the
same feeding method used last year.
Wet mash is now being givenvin ad-
dition to the dry mash which is before
the hens at all times. This seems to
1ncrease mash consumption and main-
tain a higher egg production during
the warm months. Green food is fed
plentifully, there being two feeds of
sprouted oats twice a day.

W. C. Eckard’ s pen of Leghorns still
maintains a lead, having a production.
of 1, 932. Next comes L. F. Heasley's

Leghorns with 1,806 to its credit. W._

C. Eckard’s other pen comes. third
with 1,755 .

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Island eds of the Milan Hatche
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keep it from sliding on 9" tipping
over.

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which n the way most of the" hay is
loaded now days “Smithy” taught me
to let the hay pile up on the back end
of the rack first, loading it out square
on the come-rascal then to. just let it

roll down to the front by itself.

Hay which is picked up with a load-
er, especially alfalfa and clov er, comes
up in sort of ropes, that is, twisted
loosely together in bunches. The idea
is to take them bunches and put them
on the corners and along the side,

' then put a‘ lot in the middle and

“tronip” it down good.
“Smithy" taught me how to tell if a.
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BUTTER IMPORTS INCR EASE.

 

T HE exports of butter from Don-
mark continue to increase. accord—
ing to reports to the department of
commerce, but the quantity reaching
the United States is still insignificant
compared with the vast volume of but-
ter produced and consumed in this
country. During the rind of Janu—
ary-April, this year, 333,800 pounds
of" Dani-sh butter were imported, as
against 1,503,000» pounds during the
same period in. 1923-.

During the year 1923, it is estimated
that the production of butter in Derr-
mark reached 304,234,800 pounds. Of
this amount only nineteen per cent
was retained for home consumption,
the remaining. eighty-one per cent go
ing for export. Ninety-five per cent of
the butter exported went to England.

APPLE CROP IS SMALL.

 

A T a meeting in WashingtOn of the
. Middle Atlantic Division of the
fiational Association of State Market-
ing Associations, freight and traffic
agents, and representatives of the Fed-
eral Burea of- Agricultural Economics,
fruit crop conditions and the market-
ing of the 1924 fruit crops Were dis-
cussed.

At this meeting it was agreed that
the apple crop throughout the middle
Atlantic states will be not much more
than half of last year’s yield. Railway
officials reported that their lines ex-
pected to handle from fifty to sixty
per Cent of the quantity of apples this
year that they did last.

A closer study of supply and demand
in the larger cities should result in
greater returns for the farmer and
better service for the consumer, said
Walter P. Hedden, research agent in
marketing of New York.

MICHIGAN FEARS TO BE SHIPPED
ORDER FEDERAL GRADES.

trodes this season. The new grades
which became enactive July 14, were
requested by pear growers in south-

who want the same

gram. against careless packing as
mud-red by m peach and
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it may roll over before the barn is
reached. If this happens, it means
that there is a bigger job ahead load-
{inhuman it'was toload it in
the first place: Because the load will
be all bound together in a. pile, making
it hard to pull out. The way to tell

side by swaying the body. If one side
of the lead is heavier it will tip easier

' in that direction. The thing to do in

case one side is heavier is to put more
ongthe. other side until it does ride
good. 2

Besides these technical things about
hay‘ loading, my friend and working

partner taught me smoothing else.
“Don’t get scared,” he would say. A
good many men get worried for fear
they will tip over. Such men usually
begin to imagine one side is heavier
than the other as soon as the load is
half on. As a result they pile a lot on
the other side and it tips in that direc-
tion. Finally, they either go up with
a small load or really do tip over. Un-
less well balanced a big load tips eas-
is»? than a small one, which is because
the big load is higher.

The right attitude to have is that
“you can if you think you can” spirit.
There is no reason why a man cannot
tell if a load is riding good, and if it
is not, fix it so it will. Still, accidents
will happen occasionally. And when
any man says that he never tipped
over a load'of hay it is safe to sup-
pose that he never loaded many.

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being established at Chicago this
month, and is to be followed with a
similar service at Philadelphia and.
other large cities. Increasing use is
being made of the United States ten-
tattve standards and grades for eggs.
Shipping reports show that eggs are 1
packed poorly, resulting in largef
breakage. Shippers are warned to take
more care in the packing of eggs.

COU NTY CROP REPORTS.

 

Miscaukec 60., July 17.—Beans are
75 per cent of a crop, potatoes 85 per"
cent. Corn is a failure, some of it
being only four to five inches high and
a poor stand. There is plenty of labor
available. The little chick crop is
light, due to the cold weather. Eggs
20c; butter-fat 390; wool 310; live
stock averages five cents a pound;
wheat $1. Tthe farmers are just start-
ing to cut hay. Wheat is a good crop,
about-110 per cent—E. A.

Jackson 00., July 23,—The hay is
mostly cut, with an average of about
one ton per acre. Wheat is just being
cut. The acreage of wheat was re-
duced, but the yield will be very good.
Oats and potatoes need rain badly.
The spring seeding of clover is very
good, but needs rain to keep it alive.
While factories have turned off consid-
erable help, not many have come to
the farms. A good many farms are
for sale and at a low price.

Van Buren 00., July 21.——July 20
marked the cutting of the first grain
of the season which is the latest with-
in the memory of the oldest settlers.
The little wheat which was planted in
this area is a very good crop and rye
will also be good. Oats which were
late planted have benefited by the cool
wet weather and promise to be an av-
erage crop. Many farmers are still
cutting hay, which is also a very good
crop. Corn, however, is very back-
ward and it hardly seems possible;
that it can make a crop before frost.

are looking line, 111th h in need of
rain just at present. nit growers
are harvesting a crop of blackcaps,
which will be short unless there are
rains within a very few days. Can-
ning factories are refusing the cher-
ries from many orchards and state in-
pection is condemning the fruit on ac-
count of a fungus, not known before,
that has attacked the fruit and/whichT
will causealenofthomsds of dal—
lars to the en. The cold wet
weather has favorable to the de-
velopment of fungus troubles, there
being more scab on early apples than
in normal years. Grapes have set full
and promise a b crop; Low ground
fanners have a ne stand of celery
and onions but a very short crop of

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'-rt., tl-ln. belt and buzz saw.

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VE'I'ERI‘KARY.

 

Warts on Cattle .-—I have several
young cattle that have warts on neck
and shoulder’ns some are small while
others seem to grow in groups until:
they cover a moon. uhrgc as my
hand. Have applied iodine without re-
sults. R. K, (Rivet, Mich. -Warts‘
may be removed with the scissors,
twisted off with the fin ' or liga-v
tuned by means of a to band or
horse hair. The roots Should be cau«
terized with tincture of iodine, glacial

acetic acid, or lunar mouth, but 1.9..

member, don' t apply acids to warts
near the eyes or in the mmih. Give
your cattle Fowler’s solution of ar-
senic twice a day, the dose is from
two to four drums, ut can be in-r
creased. ~

Cow Falls to Come in Heart-4 have i
a valuable registered 60w four years ‘

old and her cal-f is nearly four months
old, but she has not been in heat yet.
Will you kindly tell me what to do
as. we have no veterinary near us.
W. L. W., Kingsley, Mich—Give her
one dram of ground nux vomica and
two drums of ginger in feed twice a
day.

Man .—-I have a dog six months
old wh ch has a sort of rash on head,
chest and legs. The hair is all com-
ing off, and she keeps scratching her-
self, but otherwise feels fine .
Rose City, Mich. ——-Drop one pound of
lime and two pounds of sulphur into
two gallons of water, boil until the
mixture has a. deep‘orange color, and
make up to five quarts, with water.
Wash the dog in hot water, using
green soap with it, then apply the
lime and sulphur solution. It is good
practice to dip the dog, brushing in
this solution. Treat the dog once a
week or ten days. v'

Eczema—I have a small hunting
dog three years old, which seems to
shed hair all the time. This year he
is troubled more than ever, but it
is not caused by feeding him meat.
Mrs. J. H., Whitney, Mich—Eczema is
usually set up as the direct result of
some external irritant acting upon the
skin, such as dust, mud, fleas, lice, too
frequent bathing, and the use of soap.
Injurious foods and digestive disor-
ders with faulty elimination no doubt

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act as predisposing causes, but"
disease must be a ttrlbuted‘ to direct
local irritatiOn. A changed! _ diet is
helpful. Apply liquor plumbi sub-aw:
tatis to the affected parts, followed W
a dressing of zinc oxide ointment, or

.Lassar’ s paste

 

uglie’éurvey Edgates that the to“!
crop c com bolt, whflh
fin-niches most of the commercial an):
ply of hog: will be about the some is
that of 1921 and much smaller thin“
that of 1522 or 1023. Walsh.
1925, therefore, should be back to nor-
mal volume and prices should svengo .
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lap Prices 111 Egg:

We my hisheat marlmt price for both fancy whno
and brown crawled egos. Prompt remittance guar-
anteed. Write for stencils or shipping tugs.

- TRYSTATE EGG COMPANY

18 Jay Street. New Your. City. New York.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Quick ecmwmwsmwnemctnn.
‘ ITY.A11 the Grand Chm I.
(‘. ’s at Michigan State rah-.1921 I 1923. moi-11d
at Newman's Stock Farm. Also a low CW 8m
Pigs Cheap. Newman's Stock Fm. MM. Ilcl.

SHEEP _
LAMBS "SHEEP-"LAM BS

Feeder sheep‘ or lambs for Sent. and 012W delivery.
direct from our Montana and Dakota ranges to your
home station. Wcr pay the freight. Ask {or 0111' do-
livered prices
NORTHWESTERN SHEEP 60..
Hottingor, N. Dakota.

400 BREEDING EWES

For sale in 5001' Also 300 yearlings.
ALMOND 8.100HAFMAN a 3014. South Rockwood.

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Cotswolds, Linr'olns. Tunis, 01:—
5MP“ 3““ lords and Karakuls. All Be-
corded. LeROY KUNEY, Adrian. Mich.

 

 

 

 

good as grow. Photos
free. F. H. RUSSELL. R.

50 Delainc Rams

3. Wakcman, Ohio.

P o L Lu: Dagmar 2°23; “as. “is.“
HOUSEMAN 31108.. R. 4. Albion. m'ch.

HORSES

 

 

 

 

N l C E gentle Shetland Pony for sale, or will
exchange for Holstein cattle or sheep.
B B REAVEY. Akron, Mich.

 

consecutive insertions 8 cents a word.
display type or illustrations admitted

Minimum charge. I0 word c.

 

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

This «unified advertising department is established for the convenient-o of Michigan farmers.
Small advertisements bring best results under assumed headings.
using miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange Poultry advertising will be run In this department
at classified rates. or in display columns at commercial rates.

Rm: 8 com a word. each insertion, on orders for less than four insert-:10ns for tour or more
Count as a word each abbreviation initial or numbor. Na
Remittances must accompany order.

Real estate and live stock advertising have Music departments and are not accepted a classified.

Try it for want ads and for adver-

 

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One Four 0: Ion:

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........ .80 $8.40 26........82.0l ”.24
11 ........ .88 2.64 27 ........ 2.18 8.48
12 ........ .96 2.88 28 ........ 2.24 8.72
13 ........ 1.04 3.12 29 ........ 2.32 6.96
14 ........ 1.12 3.36 3 ........ 2.40 7.20
15 ........ .20 3.80 31 ........ 2.48 1.44
1 ........ 1.28 3.84 3 ........ 2.50 7.68
l ........ l 36 4.08 33 ........ 2.84 7.92
18 ........ 1.44 4.32 34 ........ 2.72 8.1.6
19 ........ 1.52 4.56 35 ........ 2. 8. 40
........ 1.80 4.80 36........ 2.88 8.84
........ 1.68 5.04 7. 2. 8.88
22 ........ 1.78 5.28 38 ........ 3.04 9.13
........ 1.84 5.52 39........ 3.12 9.38
24 ........ 1.92 5. 76 4 ........ 3. 9.60
-5 ........ 2.00 41 ........ 3.20 9.84

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MISCELLANEOUS

CORN HARVESTER cuts and piles on harvester or
windrows. Man and horse cuts and shocks equal
Corn Binder. Sold in every state. Only $25 with
bundle tying attachment. 'l‘estlmonlals and catalog
FREE showing picture of Harvester. Process Har-
vester (30.. Salina.

 

Kansas.

 

TYI’EWRITERS and TYl‘l'JVVlllTERS~—Hundn'ds In
all known makes. Underwoods. Olivcrs, Remingtons.
Coronas, etc, new. used or rebuilt. $20 up, in month-
ly payments, 2.00 1111. Guaranteed Five Years.
Shipped anywhere. Write for Free Pictured Folder,
Price Lists. ctr. M. Durkln—Roeves Co., 339 Fifth
Ann, Pittsburgh, Pa.

FOR SALE-420mplew Tractor outfit. 8-16 Interna—
tional Tractor Type E, Iii—Inch Ensilage Cutter with
42-11. blower pipe. 14-inch two-bottom PxO plow 50
Write Joseph Alma.
)lollne. Mich.

MAIL YOUR. KODAK FILMS to us: we develop roll.
make 15 prints return for 25c coin or
stamps. Cowlc sum», Spring-
field, 0

I BUY old American Pictures published by N.

and Currier a Ives. loud description to F. J.
384 Broadway. Fm. . Y.

& ESTA!
$1 500 9313mm with Horses, 22 Cows, Crops.
scum: .ln-mhcr lam my, neu- ’

Fountain Ava.

Curr-im-
Peters.

 

(one; more. fruit, ill-room home
mm m: 204%. valued $4,000.
1001 nus-.0112. has 84

or ”a
only one-third cash. Details page 55 Big Inns.
Bargain Catalog money- making farms.
film“ has Am. M3113 Know 31
1c

Copy free.
do. Don-014..

 

441 ACRE FARM for sale. Stock and tools stile-
from Detroit, Main

Road to Lansing. Apply Box 1210 Michigan Format

FIRST-011.435.311le or fuming land for axle st
Wm Geo. 1!. Elmer! ck. HardnfllaMlcb.

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'. .Comnmy desires permanent

 

FOR SALE—40 acre estate, 5 miles east of (barium.
Eaton County, Michigan. Fine clay loam land, lice
orchard, terms. for price of buildings. M. E. Dwew.
Pontiac. Michigan.

 

 

TOBACCO

HOME SPUN TOBACCO—Chewing, five pounds. $175:
tan, $3; smoking. five pounds. 81.25: ten. 52; pipe*
free, pay when rewived. Tobacco Guaranteed. Co—
operative Farmers, Paducsh, Kentucky.

PET STOCK

Gl-‘ RMAN SHrll’lflimllD—Alredales Collies. Old B13-
lish Shepherd dogs puppies. 10c Illustrated insane-
the list. W. R. Watson, 30x35 ”Mann. Mo.

REGISTERED (.‘oll'le bunnies, natural healers, also
”11511th Blush-s. Silvc-énrtst Kennels, Glsdwin Moll.

RAT Tl: lllllll It I’UI‘S. bred for matters. Satisfaction
Guamnteed. Abe Bowman, Jr., Stafford Kansas.

 

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SILVER FOX at farmers" prices. W. H. Wilbur, R.
6, Pontiac, Mich.

 

 

BABY CHICKS

PURE- BRED CHICK KS-reduced prices, Barred Rocks,
White Wynndottes, Beds, Buff Ommgtcns, Light
Brahmas.100, 810:50,$5.50. Postpaid. 100% deliv-
m Member lntcrnatlonal Chick Ass'n. Earlvillo
Hauhory. EBI’IVIUL, Illinois.

QUALITY CHIPKSmPostpaid.100,Loghnms,Anr 11-
85, Large Anson/«1.38. Rot-ks, Beds, $9. Drugs-
tons, annrlottcs. $10. Lt Brahmas. $15. Assorted.
50. Catalog Free. Missouri Poultry Farms. Comm-

bla, M o.
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POULTRY

PULLETs~Barron S. C. W. Moms, 75c h.
reduced Dfile on 100 10 . m m
Holland. 111.11. as Henry W“ H l. 4'

LOTUS FARM ANCONAS. The combined xh
and egg strain. Vigorous March hatched eC odh‘emiolgz
$3. 00 each Walter Kraus, B. 1.. Monroe. Mich.

FOB SALEw—IOOO 15-weok-old Englilh a. C.

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W. Leghorn bullets. 1.00 h
Braman. Pale. Mich. S eac In I.” I Oi A.

FOR SALE—L4- weck- 0E Willa m mts. Geo.

B Wilson. Dllttarnut. Mich.
S. C. “$31111? LEGHOBlS C -
”raw actual: and Meta. W11

HELP WANIID
SALESMAN WANTED—Nationally wished on
m“ “12%.” .
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to farmers. State age anti) qualifications. WW1! ‘1" V
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mid. 81 month: .
bus Instimto. R. 5. Columbus. Ohio.

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son and daughter of Gov. Charles Bryan, 0f was the first baby named after and Lady Hai’g started the yacht races at .
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